In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling
collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of
America's most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos
Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our
capacity for empathy. Campo writes stunning, candid poems from
outside the academy, poems that arise with equal beauty from a
bleak Boston tenement or a moonlit Spanish plaza, poems that remain
unafraid to explore and to celebrate his identity as a doctor and
Cuban American gay man. Yet no matter what their unexpected and
inspired sources, Campo's poems insistently remind us of the
necessity of poetry itself in our increasingly fractured society;
his writing brings us together--just as did the incantations of
humankind's earliest healers--into the warm circle of community and
connectedness. In this heart-wrenching, haunting, and ultimately
humane work, Rafael Campo has painted as if in blood and breath a
gorgeously complex world, in which every one of us can be found.
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