In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning
writer 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 the presumed enemy 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 hope
arises from even the most bitter of conflicts. That hope-manifest
here in the Cuban exile's dream of 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 soulfully reveals this
greatest of human aspirations as the one sustaining us all.
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