The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
Rafael Campo is acclaimed as an important contemporary poet on the basis of his two books of poetryThe Other Man Was MeandWhat the Body Told. InThe Poetry of HealingCampo 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. Campo's prose is precise and poetic; his insights are revelations.The Poetry of Healingis a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.