Only Praxis Alerts All Praxis. Only Praxis Alerts All Praxis. The goodwill is palpable in the yawning marble atrium of the Carl Shapiro Clinical Center at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
People come in and out all evening, some stopping to listen, others tiptoeing through.
Yet the transience and anonymity of sitting in an entryway is belied by the sense of sudden community among the group gathered to hear four nationally acclaimed poets Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Marilyn Krysl read from work that speaks in different ways to the experience of illness and healing. Man with a mission He carries slim volumes of verse alongside his stethoscope. Rhythm and rhyme mimic that most primal rhythm, the heartbeat. The nostalgia he feels for his Latino heritage is learned, sometimes even forced upon him. If one could describe a person as having good karma, it would be fair to say that of Campo.