The enemy / Rafael Campo.
2007
PS3553.A4883 E54 2007
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Title
The enemy / Rafael Campo.
Author
ISBN
9780822338628 (acid-free paper)
0822338629 (acid-free paper)
9780822339601 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0822339609 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0822338629 (acid-free paper)
9780822339601 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0822339609 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Copyright
©2007
Language Note
In English, with some poems in Spanish.
Language
English
Description
99 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS3553.A4883 E54 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)75087943
Summary
"In his fifth collection of poetry, the award-winning writer and physician Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war--not only against so-called evildoers abroad but also with its own troubled conscience. Yet whether he is addressing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the battle against the AIDS pandemic, or the "culture wars" surrounding the issues of feminism and gay marriage, Campo's compelling poems affirm the notion that from even the most bitter of conflicts arises hope. That hope--expressed here in the Cuban exile's dream of someday returning to his homeland, in a dying IV drug user's wish for humane medical treatment, in a downcast housewife's desire to express herself meaningfully through art--is that somehow we can be better than ourselves. Through a kaleidoscopic lens of poetic forms, Campo reveals this greatest of human aspirations as the one sustaining us all"-- Publisher's description.
Formatted Contents Note
I. The enemy. Dialogue with sun and poet
Addressed to her (Provincetown, June 2002)
"Elsa, Varadero, 1934"
Night has fallen
Personal mythology
Piranhas
Brief treatise on the new millennial poetics
El viejo y la mar
Ode to the man incidentally caught in the photograph of us on my desk
The enemy
God, gays, and guns
Patriotic poem
Post-9/11 parable
Sestina dolorosa
What passes now for moral discourse
from Libro de preguntas
II. Eighteen days in France. Eighteen days in France
III. Towards a theory of memory. from Cien sonetos de amor
A simple Cuban meal
The sailfish
Ganymede, to Zeus
After the long drive
For Jorge, after twenty years
Song in the off-season
Catastrophic sestina
Toward a theory of memory
Patagonia
Defense of marriage
The story of us
The sodomite's lament
Equinoctial downpour
Pantoum for our imagined break-up
The changing of the seasons
Once, it seemed better
October, last sail
IV. Dawn, new age. Dawn, new age
Allegorical
Progress
The crocuses
Crybaby Haiku
"Silence=death"
Clinical vignettes
You bring out the doctor in me
Composite of three poems from the same anthology by Williams, Rukeyser, and Sexton
Tuesday morning
Arriving
Absolution
On doctoring
Sick day.
Addressed to her (Provincetown, June 2002)
"Elsa, Varadero, 1934"
Night has fallen
Personal mythology
Piranhas
Brief treatise on the new millennial poetics
El viejo y la mar
Ode to the man incidentally caught in the photograph of us on my desk
The enemy
God, gays, and guns
Patriotic poem
Post-9/11 parable
Sestina dolorosa
What passes now for moral discourse
from Libro de preguntas
II. Eighteen days in France. Eighteen days in France
III. Towards a theory of memory. from Cien sonetos de amor
A simple Cuban meal
The sailfish
Ganymede, to Zeus
After the long drive
For Jorge, after twenty years
Song in the off-season
Catastrophic sestina
Toward a theory of memory
Patagonia
Defense of marriage
The story of us
The sodomite's lament
Equinoctial downpour
Pantoum for our imagined break-up
The changing of the seasons
Once, it seemed better
October, last sail
IV. Dawn, new age. Dawn, new age
Allegorical
Progress
The crocuses
Crybaby Haiku
"Silence=death"
Clinical vignettes
You bring out the doctor in me
Composite of three poems from the same anthology by Williams, Rukeyser, and Sexton
Tuesday morning
Arriving
Absolution
On doctoring
Sick day.
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