Duke University
Press is pleased to be the publisher
of three books of poetry by Rafael Campo
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Gold
Medalist in Poetry, |
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Finalist, National Book Critic Circle Award |
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Winner,
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Praise for Rafael Campo’s poetry
“Landscape with Human Figure bespeaks compassion, dedication, and the sort of intellectual curiosity you’d expect from an M.D. with a creative writing degree.”—Eric McHenry, The New York Times Book Review
“Now a gay physician has added his story to the narrative of medicine: Rafael Campo’s work queers medicine, violates all boundaries, and opens up the physician and his audience to medicine’s possibilities, its shortcomings, and its poetry.”—Chris Freeman, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review
“Diva . . . sings across an extraordinary range of tones and topics. . . . Campo’s poems have always negotiated the difficult terrain of identity across these very complicated categories, and the ones in Diva refine that further, often taking glorious flight as they celebrate the very earthbound complexities of the experiences they explore. . . . His poems both dance and sing, and offer his readers a rare opportunity to enjoy the music of a poetry not afraid, or ashamed, to belt out its beautiful and painful truths.”—The Washington Blade
“Like William Carlos Williams and John Stone, Campo is a physician-poet who uses the discipline of medicine to read back to us our fascination with AIDS, the representation of the diva, and the struggle for compassion. . . . In the spirit of Meredith, Campo writes mordant lyrics of dark love that displace trite expectations of what sonnets or canciones should accomplish. His work is devoid of cheap romanticizing.”—Jerry W. Ward Jr., Washington Post Book World
“[M]ature and riveting. . . . [Campo’s] ability to write without emotional restraint, and yet without emotional excess, gives readers a glimpse into a fully human life, one beset with contradictions and imperfections that mirror the world’s. . . . [I]n these well-crafted and well-ordered poems that accrue, in collection, both depth and relevance. Campo, writing at top form for several years, sustains and deepens his voice in this volume. Exploring material he has examined in previous collections, he goes closer to the bone here, displaying a new vulnerability within the framework of precisely crafted poems. As always, Campo’s work is visceral, electric, romantic, and haunting.”—Cortney Davis, Medical Humanities Review
Interviews with Rafael Campo
NPR Talk of the Nation “Science Friday”
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