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...
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing....
Gathered from Rafael Campo's over twenty year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-eight poems-thirty of which have never been previously published in a collection-pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos.
Gathered from Rafael Campo's over twenty year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-eight poems-thirty of which have never been previously publishe...
Gathered from Rafael Campo's over twenty year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-eight poems-thirty of which have never been previously published in a collection-pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos.
Gathered from Rafael Campo's over twenty year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-eight poems-thirty of which have never been previously publishe...
