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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 "pharmaceutical" samples of work by a diverse group of poets such as Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Miroslav Holub, Audre Lorde, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams. He leads us through the stages of illness and recuperation, from first inklings of mortality through symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and finally recovery or—and here medicine recoils but poetry perseveres—death, and even immortality.

At each stage, Campo reveals the richness of individual poems and the potent medicine they offer. Ultimately, he proposes a "biocultural" model of illness as provocative as it is humane—one that restores the art of poetry to its rightful place at the heart of a healthy society. 10 b/w illustrations. ... Read more

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Powerful songs of suffering
The poems in this collection are powerful and intimate. Although the organization of the book could be tighter, Compo's poem address the devastating effects of AIDS and cancer on patients. Compo brings the reader into the world of the sick and reminds me that beyong our own fear of cancer and AIDS is the power of empathy. When Compo shows me the raw emotions of an woman on the edge of death, I am reminded of life and what it means to live ... Read more

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Awesome!
Sorry this is so late...didn't realize I hadn't reviewed it until just today. Anyway, this book got to me in plenty of time and was in excellent condition! ... Read more

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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, poems that remain unafraid to explore and to celebrate his identity as a doctor and Cuban American gay man. Yet no matter what their unexpected and inspired sources, Campo’s poems insistently remind us of the necessity of poetry itself in our increasingly fractured society; his writing brings us together—just as did the incantations of humankind’s earliest healers—into the warm circle of community and connectedness. In this heart-wrenching, haunting, and ultimately humane work, Rafael Campo has painted as if in blood and breath a gorgeously complex world, in which every one of us can be found. ... Read more

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The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy, and the erotic, of love itself--these are some of the themes of Rafael Campo's deeply humanistic work, as he writes not just of his attempts to heal but also of how how patients have healed him, and of how often doctors may forget to include caring among their medicines for curing.Amazon.com Review
Rafael Campo is acclaimed as an important contemporary poet onthe basis of his two books of poetry The Other Man Was Meand What the BodyTold. In The Poetry of Healing Campo uses his gift forlanguage to explicate and delineate the connections between being adoctor and a poet, a writer and a healer, a gay man and aneducator. Campo's topic is always the body and he understands itsfragility and resistance, its power and its grace. Campo's prose isprecise and poetic; his insights are revelations. The Poetry ofHealing is a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir thatilluminates the world with new light and urgency. ... Read more

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This GLM walks on water!
Campo has created a poetic autobiography which describes his life as a gay, Latino doctor and poet. This book exemplifies that a person can be proud of being both a person of color and gay. In addition, we can be artists, healers, and so much more. Though not as effective as Gloria Anzaldua's work, Campo still demonstrates the wonders of inhabiting multiple identities and spaces. At times, he leaves his class-privilege unexamined. Some portions are repetitive. Nevertheless, I feel fortunate that I found and read this series of essays.Knowing that a gay man of color can strive in a demanding field despite bigotry, can perform well at prestigious universities, and can have a long-term partner is quite inspirational for me.

Poetry:the miracle cure
I read Campo's poetry before I knew he was a doctor; therefore, I hope heforgives me for thinking of him as a poet first, a doctor second.But thiseloquent book--and indeed, Campo's life--exemplifies the benefits ofaccessing both sides of one's brain, the creative as well as theanalytical/scientific.At times soaring with hopefulness and at othersquestioning the purpose of life and pondering the darkest moments ofdespair, Campo writes passionately and intimately about his role in thehealing arts.This calling is informed as much by his poetic genius andability to come face to face with raw emotion, unflinchingly, as it is byhis doctoral training.

Campo writes powerfully about AIDS and ourrelationship to the plague in a way one seldom reads:with practicalguidelines, not moralistic platitudes and empty slogans.His essay"Imagining Unmanaging Health Care" is worth the price of thebook.

An excellent volume of essays, full of warmth, compassion, and mostof all, humanity.Campo has truly become the "warrior-physician"he aspired to be--let's hope managed care doesn't drive him from theprofession.

A sensitive book by a gay, Latino, physician who treats AIDS
Dr. Campo provides a sensitive and sometimes provocative look at the life of a gay, minority, physician who treats patients suffering from the plague of the 90s, AIDS.Moreover, Dr. Campo, a true humanist and poet, discusseshow his passion for medicine and writing have oftentimes seemed at oddswith each other. He was able to deal with many, many issues in his life andto use both medicine and writing to heal himself, his patients, and, Ibelieve, some of his readers.He is courageous, too, just by writing thiskind of book. I couldn't have imagined a Yale-educated physician acting so"un-Ivy."But, Dr. Campo has spoken out to describe, in vividdetail, his love of medicine and of words and, most importantly, of hispatients.

This book is a wonderful, wonderful read. ... Read more

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"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 Weekly), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed him. He writes of campy Aurora, "dying of love"; the elderly woman telling of her trip to the country to pick "big-as-your-hands" peaches; a hateful addict he wished would die; and Gary, whom he feared to love, "contentious and gossipy and irreverent." Campo's work, "reminiscent of Chekhov . . . [in] the way language comes up out of the body" (Los Angeles Times), restores "the transcendent power of language to redeem" as, throughout the book, "the narrative, and the narrator, only get more luscious" (Out).

This book was originally published in hardcover under the title The Poetry of Healing.Amazon.com Review
Rafael Campo, the author of The Other Man Was Me andWhat the Body Told, is both a doctor and an importantcontemporary poet. In The Desire to Heal, he uses his gift forlanguage to delineate and explicate the connections between his twovocations, writing and healing, and his roles as a gay man and aneducator.Campo's topic is always the body; he understands itsfragility and resistance, its power and grace. His prose is preciseand poetic, and his insights are revelations. The Desire toHeal is a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir thatilluminates the world with new light and urgency. ... Read more

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A young doctor's journey of self-discovery
I almost didn't read this book. I was expecting a discourse on the healing power of the creative arts as an alternative therapy in medicine. Campo may write about that elsewhere, but not here. If anything, the book concerns the power of poetry for the physician in need of healing.

Campo's book is part memoir, part polemic. Chiefly, it recounts his struggles to forge a single identiy as doctor, poet, Latino, and gay man. He articulates with considerable and painful clarity the many ways in which these separate identities have been in conflict. They seem finally to come together in his role as a physician to AIDS patients. But even in that there is conflict, both with the devastating nature of the disease and the efforts of managed health care to diminish his best efforts to fulfill his calling as a doctor.

As memoir, his book retraces the steps of his life journey into his profession (at the time of the book's writing he is still a young doctor, in his early 30s). We meet his Cuban-American parents, learn of his middle class suburban background, and hear of his struggles of sexual identity, which produce in him intense shame, anger and fear. We follow him to Amherst, where he meets and falls in love with a fellow med student who becomes his life partner, and from there to residency in UCSF hospital in San Francisco. He describes his bout with suspected cancer, discovered after a skiing accident. And he tells of a patient, Gary, dying of AIDS, who teaches him much about being both a doctor and a poet.

As polemic, his book argues against homophobia (even as he overcomes it in himself) and its contribution to the continuing health crisis for gay men. He argues that the catch phrase "safe sex" diminishes the fragile self-esteem and challenges the identities of gay men. He argues that modern medicine, with its reliance on technology and pharmaceuticals and insistence on professional objectivity, robs young doctors of the compassion, empathy, and desire that drew them into the profession in the first place -- and thus makes them less effective in the delivery of health care. And he argues for the legitimacy of poetry as both a practice and a guiding metaphor for the role of physician. He notes that poetry and healing are both arts; one informs and supports the other.

I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the practice of modern medicine, the training and self-education of physicians, and journeys of self-discovery. It is especially affirming in its embrace of same-sex affection, love, and passion. As companion volumes, I recommend two other books: Richard Rodriguez' memoir "Hunger of Memory" and Abraham Verghese's account of his experience as an AIDS doctor, "My Own Country."

Breathtaking
Eloquent, honest, beautiful.It's obvious Campo is a poet at heart, and that he brings his poet's sensibility to his life as a physician.Although the details of this book are personal and particular (his Cuban heritage, life as a gay man, experiences caring for AIDS patients at the height of the epidemic), Campo's observations are universal.

Beautiful language, beautiful thoughts.
As a pre-med student, this book caught my interest because of its focus on the side of medicine that is internal to the physician: the medicine that works in a physician's heart and mind.Campo gives a poetic andwell-constructed testimony of his struggles and triumphs in reconciling hispersonality with the world around him and the difference between simplywanting to practice medicine and having a "desire to heal."Idefinitely recommend this to anyone with an intense desire to see thehumanity of a field that is so often seen as something sterile andimpersonal. ... Read more

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The book ends with Campo's fluid, admirable translations of Lorca's queer-themed Sonnets of Dark Love. The author also adds a note aboutLorca's influence on his own work, explaining that he spent years "tryingto make my English sound like Spanish, that elusive inner language of mylost childhood in Latin America." Whether he's succeeded in this bit oflinguistic cross-pollination is hard to gauge. But in his frequent use ofrhyme and his gift for observing his immediate environment, Campo hasundoubtedly produced a satisfying, accessible body of work, which has wonhim a pair of Lambda Literary Awards and a nomination for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award. The poems in Diva, especially the title poem à clef on adolescentclarity and angst, should only extend his considerable audience. --Regina Marler ... Read more

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In "Diva," Rafael Campo brings to life the issues that color the world today with bold and touching lines of poetry and prose. Campo's palpable language not only invites but envelopes the reader into his worldof pain and anguish, loves and passions-- and the everyday happenstances oflife in America and abroad.A doctor by profession, Campo stitches the rawrealities of the medical world with the ever-impending emotional tuggingthat comes along with the social stigmas associated with incurableillnesses such as AIDS. Campo delicately treads on the balance betweenexperience and observation, leading the reader to a heightened awareness ofthe world around her/him and an empathetic eye to those who share it.

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In "Diva," Rafael Campo brings to life the issues that color the world today with bold and touching lines of poetry and prose. Campo's palpable language not only invites but envelopes the reader into his worldof pain and anguish, loves and passions-- and the everyday happenstances oflife in America and abroad.A doctor by profession, Campo stitches the rawrealities of the medical world with the ever-impending emotional tuggingthat comes along with the social stigmas associated with incurableillnesses such as AIDS. Campo delicately treads on the balance betweenexperience and observation, leading the reader to a heightened awareness ofthe world around her/him and an empathetic eye to those who share it. ... Read more

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Best Heloderma Book Written-- A Classic!
Being a lover of reptiles and especially the Herpetology of the desert southwest, I found this book to be an invaluable resource for Heloderma.The book is both technical with many details of behavior, range and feeding, but also can be easily interpreted by the most casual of venomous lizard lover.Every desert dweller MUST own this book!

The best monograph ever written about Heloderma
_The Gila Monster and Its Allies; The Relationship, Habits, and Behavior of the Lizards of the Family Helodermatidae_ is the classic work on the topic. This reprint of the 1956 edition is updated with a new preface. It contains the ecology, Natural History, morphology, and complex behaviors of these unique venomous lizards of America, Mexico, and Central America. Illustrated with B/W photos, graphs, maps, and drawings. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafael Campo Pomar (24 October 1813, Sonsonate, El Salvador - 1 March 1890, Puerto de Acajutla) was President of El Salvador 12 February 1856 - 1 February 1858. Campo was elected president on 30 January 1856. He turned over power to his vice president, Francisco Dueñas, on 12 May of the same year, but resumed the presidency on 19 July. He was a member of the Conservative Party. Campo stepped down after the serious cholera epidemic of 1857 had exhausted the country. ... Read more

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Chapters: Rubén Berríos, Pedro Albizu Campos, Rafael Pérez, Mariana Bracetti, Miguel Henríquez, Alejo Maldonado, Oscar López Rivera, Jorge Solano Moreta. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pedro Albizu Campos (June 29, 1893 or September 12, 1891 April 21, 1965) was a Puerto Rican politician and one of the leading figures in the Puerto Rican independence movement. He was the leader and president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death. He was imprisoned for many years, on several occasions, in both United States and Puerto Rico, dying shortly after his release from federal prison. Because of his oratorical skills he was known as El Maestro ("The Teacher"). Albizu Campos was born in Tenerías Village in Ponce, Puerto Rico to Alejandro Albizu and Juana Campos. He was the nephew of danza composer Juan Morel Campos and cousin of Puerto Rican educator Dr. Carlos Albizu Miranda. In 1912, Albizu was awarded a scholarship to study Engineering, specializing in Chemistry at the University of Vermont. In 1913 he continued his studies at Harvard University. Lieutenant Pedro Albizu Campos (U.S. Army)At the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered in the United States Infantry. Albizu was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Army Reverves and sent to the City of Ponce where he organized the town's Home Guard. He was called to serve in the regular Army and sent to Camp Las Casas for further training. Upon completing the training, he was assigned to the 375th Infantry Regiment. Puerto Ricans of African descent were assigned to the all black units such as the 375th Regiment in accordance to the United States military segregation policies. Albizu was honorably discharged from the Army in 1919, with the rank of First Lieutenant. During the ti...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=298778 ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Title: Vaccinia virus infection in monkeys, Brazilian Amazon.(DISPATCHES)
Author: Jonatas S. Abrahao
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2010
Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
Volume: 16Issue: 6Page: 976(4)

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 341 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Undetectable. (Poetry).(Poem)
Author: Rafael Campo
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: 60Issue: 3Page: 477(2)

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