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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... 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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 orand here medicine recoils but poetry perseveresdeath, and even immortality. At each stage, Campo reveals the richness of individual poems and the potent medicine they offer. 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In his masterful third collection, Campo explores further the epic themes of his Cuban heritage and America's newness, his work as a doctor caring for AIDS patients and his identity as a gay man.  At once relishing and resisting the poetic traditions of formal English verse, Diva showcases Campo moving deftly between received forms and free verse. In each poem the sound of words is transformed into the highest of arts, the act of performance into the exercise of power, and the most profound abjection into the sweet promise of divinity. Culminating with his new and daring translations of Federico García Lorca's sonetos—the great Spanish poet's most homoerotically explicit and formally accomplished poems—Campo's music instills in the reader an exalted understanding of beauty, suffering, and, ultimately, the human capacity for empathy. From reviews of Campo's previous poetry:  “Extraordinary meditations on illness and the healing power of words.”—Lambda Literary Foundation  “Read Campo to enter the bloodstream of a man who, with a haunting clarity of vision, shares his memories, his anguish, his healing love.”—Cortney Davis, Literature and Medicine  “Riveting, provocative, and refreshing—[this volume] is a gift to the clinician who is trying to re-invoke in his or her students the humility, compassion, and deep caring that brought us all into medicine in the first place.”—Dr. Sandra L. 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The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy and the erotic, of love itselfthese 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 his patients have healed him, and of how often doctors may forget to include caring among their medicines for curing. From his arresting first chapter, one is in the hands of a writer who bridges the clinical distance of medicine to face the pain of mortality, the brokenness of society, and the unique and vulnerable beauty of human beings. 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. He recalls the beginning of his journey toward the healing arts in a childhood where the pain of bumps and bruises was alleviated by a parent's kisses and to be well meant to be loved. 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