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The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
The Poetry of Healing A Doctor's Education in Empathy Identity and Desire Author:Rafael Campo Rafael Campo is acclaimed as an important contemporary poet on the basis of his two books of poetry The Other Man Was Me and What the Body Told. In The Poetry of Healing Campo 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... more » 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 Healing is a work of literary grace and compassion -- a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.« less