The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry
Rafael Campo, the author ofThe Other Man Was MeandWhat the Body Told, is both a doctor and an important contemporary poet. InThe Desire to Heal, he uses his gift for language to delineate and explicate the connections between his two vocations, writing and healing, and his roles as a gay man and an educator.  Campo's topic is always the body; he understands its fragility and resistance, its power and grace. His prose is precise and poetic, and his insights are revelations.The Desire to Healis a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.