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Alternative Medicine - Softcover

Campo, Rafael

 
9780822355878: Alternative Medicine
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822355876 ISBN 13: 9780822355878
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is also on the faculty of the Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing. Campo is the author of The Enemy, Landscape with Human Figure, Diva, and What the Body Told, all published by Duke University Press. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Gold Medal in Poetry from ForeWord, the Paterson Poetry Prize, two Lambda Literary Awards, and a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination. Campo's poetry has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Nation, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Progressive, Slate.com, Yale Review, and The Threepenny Review.

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

By RAFAEL CAMPO

Duke University Press

Copyright © 2014 Rafael Campo
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-5587-8

Contents

I. HAVANA..................................................................
Havana.....................................................................3
My Kind of Love Poem.......................................................4
A History of Poetry........................................................5
Wilhelmina Shakespeare.....................................................6
The Common Mental Health disorders of Immigrants...........................7
Advanced Placement.........................................................10
Elegy for a Revolution.....................................................12
Patriotic Anthem for a Lost Homeland.......................................13
Resort.....................................................................14
New Jersey, the Garden State...............................................15
Rio Grande.................................................................17
fish Story.................................................................18
Times Square...............................................................19
Calendar...................................................................20
The Thief..................................................................21
Batteries Not Included.....................................................23
Kids' Games................................................................24
Heart Grow fonder..........................................................25
Trees......................................................................26
Promnesia..................................................................28
The Reading................................................................29
II. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE...................................................
Hospital Song..............................................................33
faith Healing..............................................................34
Iatrogenic.................................................................35
The Third Step in obtaining an Arterial Blood Gas..........................36
After the floods...........................................................37
For All the freaks of the World............................................38
Pharmacopeia for the New Millennium........................................41
Recent Past Events.........................................................44
Alternative Medicine.......................................................46
Band of Gold...............................................................50
Primary Care...............................................................52
Nude.......................................................................53
Not Untrue.................................................................54
On the Wards...............................................................55
Without My White Coat......................................................56
Health.....................................................................58
Why Doctors Write..........................................................59
Reforming Health Care......................................................61
The Performance............................................................63
III. PLONK.................................................................
Ode to the Lists in Front of Me............................................67
Lax........................................................................69
Plonk......................................................................70
Views of Heaven............................................................72
Paternity..................................................................74
The Massage................................................................76
On the Anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks................................78
Interrogative..............................................................79
Dreams.....................................................................80
The Golden Age of Venetian Painting........................................81
Shared.....................................................................82
Within.....................................................................84
Love Song for Love Songs...................................................85
Poem Written at 5am on the Sweetness of Life...............................86
What the Dead See..........................................................87
Sestina in Red.............................................................88
The Destruction of the Temples of Machu Picchu.............................90


CHAPTER 1

I

HAVANA


Havana

When we were six or seven, Dad would quiz uson the capitals of the world, me and my kid brotherswho didn't even know our own address. We livedin New Jersey, not Cuba, and our ignoranceseemed like the reason we would never,ever go there. So I tried to memorize the namesof the stars printed on my National GeographicMap of the World: L-I-M-A was the capital of Peru,not just a kind of bean I hated; I wondered if Peruwas anything like Cuba. I wondered if I would ever seewhat I imagined were the horrible, muddy streetsof Helsinki, which sounded like a place where sinnerslike me would be punished, sucked into the earthfor good; even Ottawa, in our nice neighbor Canada,seemed incomprehensibly far away. It was alwaysat dinnertime when he'd start in on us: Who knowsthe capital of Burma? I stared into my succotash,pushing it around and around with my fork,sure that children there were starving, dyingof starvation in a city whose name I didn't even know.One night, with the distant stars flickering outsidethe steamed-up kitchen windows, he asked,Does anyone here know the capital of Cuba?Every bone in my body ached with the answer,the one place in the world I most wanted to visit,the one place in the world whose namewas always impossible for me to...

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822355876
ISBN 13 
9780822355878
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
102
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