Alternative Medicine by RafaelCampo Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5587-8, ISBN: 0-8223-5587-6
"In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to t ..."
The Enemy(1st Edition) by RafaelCampo Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3960-1, ISBN: 0-8223-3960-9
"In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war--not only against the presumed enemy abroad but also with its own troubled conscience. Yet whether he is addressing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the battle against ..."
Landscape with Human Figure(1st Edition) by RafaelCampo Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2890-2, ISBN: 0-8223-2890-9
"In Landscape with Human Figure, his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America’s most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our capacity for empathy. Campo writes stunning, candid poems from outside the academy, poems that arise with equal beauty from a bleak Boston tenement or a moonlit Spanish plaza, p ..."
The Desire to Heal(1st Edition) A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry by RafaelCampo Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31771-8, ISBN: 0-393-31771-4
""Campo's gift is being able to describe the evolution of his manhood... fearlessly and with breathtaking honesty. He is truly a doctor of the soul."―Abraham Verghese "Rafael Campo is that rare and exotic hybrid," raved the Boston Globe, "a doctor-poet, with a sensualist point of view that leads him to explore... the eroticism of healing-the laying on of hands." In this "unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession" (Publishers ..."
What the Body Told by RafaelCampo Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1742-5, ISBN: 0-8223-1742-7
"What the Body Told is the second book of poetry from Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, a gay Cuban American, and winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition. Exploring the themes begun in his first book, The Other Man Was Me, Campo extends the search for identity into new realms of fantasy and physicality. He travels inwardly to the most intimate spaces of the imagination where sexuality and gender collide and where l ..."
Comfort Measures Only New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016 by RafaelCampo Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0021-1, ISBN: 1-4780-0021-X
"In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine poems—thirty-one of which have never been previously published in a collection—pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos. The poet, who is also truly a healer, revives language itself— ..."
Comfort Measures Only New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016 (Hardback) by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0007-5, ISBN: 1-4780-0007-4
"In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering."
The Healing Art(1st Edition) A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05727-0, ISBN: 0-393-05727-5
"A celebrated poet and doctor connects—through favorite verses and stories from his life and practice—poetry and healing. As a respected and much-loved doctor, Rafael Campo shares favorite poems with patients on his rounds. After all, incantation has played a role in healing for millennia, displaced only recently by modern scientific obsessions. In this luminous book, Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, offering "pharma ..."
The Poetry of Healing(1st Edition) A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire by RafaelCampo, Edwards Louisa Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 1997 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04009-8, ISBN: 0-393-04009-7
"Rafael Campo is acclaimed as an important contemporary poet on the basis of his two books of poetry The Other Man Was Me and What the Body Told. In The Poetry of Healing Campo uses his gift for language to explicate and delineate the connections between being a doctor and a poet, a writer and a healer, a gay man and an educator. Campo's topic is always the body and he understands its fragility and resistance, its power and its grace. Ca ..."
The Other Man Was Me(1st Edition) A Voyage to the New World by RafaelCampo Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 1994 by Arte Publico Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-111-5, ISBN: 1-55885-111-9
"Winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition.Finalist in the American Library Association's 1995 Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award in the literature category.Finalist in the PEN Center USA West 1995 Literary Awards in the poetry category.Finalist in the Lambda Book Award in the gay men's poetry category."
Alternative Medicine(1st Edition) by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5573-1, ISBN: 0-8223-5573-6
"In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to t ..."
The Enemy (Hardback) by RafaelCampo Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3862-8, ISBN: 0-8223-3862-9
Diva by RafaelCampo, Federico Garcia Lorca Hardcover, 98 Pages, Published 1999 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2383-9, ISBN: 0-8223-2383-4
"The collection is Liz Hutner’s powerful testament to her son, Sam, bravely battling leukemia. The quietly eloquent photographs by Hutner’s brother and Sam’s uncle, Simeon Hutner, beautifully enhance this portrait of intimacy and courage. The poems do not shy from the gritty details of the medical ordeal the mother faces with her son. But there are many glimpses of joy, too, often found in the ordinary moment of childhood, so few of whic ..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
The Other Man Was Me A Voyage to the New World by RafaelCampo Published by Arte Publico Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61192-244-8, ISBN: 1-61192-244-5
"Rafael Campo. IX. My Patient's Heart Attack His room is just like Mrs. Hanson's
room. The window barely keeps the city out. ... I see The disappointment on his
wedding day, The deep resentment of his son who's gay— They look alike— the
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Comfort Measures Only by RafaelCampo Paperback, Published 2016 by The Hippocrates Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9572571-8-4, ISBN: 0-9572571-8-X
"A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."