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In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the
unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his
over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine
poems—thirty-one 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. The
poet, who is also truly a healer, revives language itself—its
sounds channeled through our hearts and lungs, its rhythms
amplified through the stethoscope—to make meaning of our
bewilderment when our bodies so eloquently and yet wordlessly fail
us. Campo’s transcendent poems, in all their modernity amidst the
bleep of heart monitors and the wail of ambulance sirens, remind us
of what the ancients understood: that poetry sustains us, and
whether we live or die, through what we can imagine and create in
our shared voices we may yet achieve immortality.
If your goal is to be an outstanding manager, this concise business
book will provide you with 15 Golden Rules that can put you at the
top of your profession. Author Rafael Campos has integrated these
rules into his own management techniques with tremendous success,
and now he shares them with you. Unlike many business management
books, Campos does not use business-speak or buzzwords. His golden
rules are all about managing your most valuable resource, the
people on your team. Campos recognizes the value of motivated
employees and is acutely aware that a positive attitude in the
business environment starts at the top. Now you can improve your
skills and become the type of manager that motivates others,
changes the culture of the business, projects a positive attitude
and earns both the respect and appreciation of employees, team
members, colleagues, clients and business owners. That s what being
an outstanding manager is all about having people who look forward
to coming to work every day. Rafael A. Campos is the Regional
Manager and oversees the entire Latin America operations for a
California-based facilities management company for commercial and
industrial locations. During his tenure he has helped grow and
expand the company from 150 employees to over 850 today in the
Latin America market. Campos, who is bi-lingual and bi-cultural,
has extensive managerial experience, working all over the world.
One commonality that he has discovered, in his esteemed global
career, is that the most important resource to manage in any
company is the people. Campos believes very strongly that
outstanding managers always take into account the best interest of
the people, if they want their business to succeed.
This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump-about much more
than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense
of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election,
since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes.
There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-two
poets featured include Juan Felipe Herrera, Richard Blanco, Carolyn
Forche, Patricia Smith, Robert Pinsky, Donald Hall, Elizabeth
Alexander, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brian
Turner, and Naomi Shihab Nye. They speak of persecuted and
scapegoated immigrants. They bear witness to violence: police
brutality against African Americans, mass shootings in a school or
synagogue. They testify to poverty, the waitress surviving on
leftovers at the restaurant, the battles of a teacher in a shelter
for homeless mothers, the emergency-room doctor listening to the
heartbeats of his patients. There are voices of labor, in the
factory and the fields. There are prophetic voices, imploring us to
imagine the world we will leave behind in ruins lest we speak and
act. However, this is not merely a collection of grievances. The
poets build bridges. One poet steps up to translate in Arabic at
the airport; another declaims a musical manifesto after the
hurricane that devastated his island; another evokes a
demonstration in the street, an ecstasy of defiance, the joy of
resistance. The poets take back the language, resisting the
demagogic corruption of words themselves. They assert our common
humanity.
In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the
unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his
over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine
poems-thirty-one 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. The poet, who
is also truly a healer, revives language itself-its sounds
channeled through our hearts and lungs, its rhythms amplified
through the stethoscope-to make meaning of our bewilderment when
our bodies so eloquently and yet wordlessly fail us. Campo's
transcendent poems, in all their modernity amidst the bleep of
heart monitors and the wail of ambulance sirens, remind us of what
the ancients understood: that poetry sustains us, and whether we
live or die, through what we can imagine and create in our shared
voices we may yet achieve immortality.
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 understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing.
Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning,
heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways
of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and
dying.
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.
A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry "Campo's gift is being able to describe the evolution of his manhood... fearlessly and with breathtaking honesty. He is truly a doctor of the soul."—Abraham Verghese
"Rafael Campo is that rare and exotic hybrid," raved the Boston Globe, "a doctor-poet, with a sensualist point of view that leads him to explore... the eroticism of healing-the laying on of hands." In this "unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession" (Publishers Weekly), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed him. He writes of campy Aurora, "dying of love"; the elderly woman telling of her trip to the country to pick "big-as-your-hands" peaches; a hateful addict he wished would die; and Gary, whom he feared to love, "contentious and gossipy and irreverent." Campo's work, "reminiscent of Chekhov... [in] the way language comes up out of the body" (Los Angeles Times), restores "the transcendent power of language to redeem" as, throughout the book, "the narrative, and the narrator, only get more luscious" (Out). - "Campo's humanity suffuses these absorbing, deeply felt essays, written in bold and graceful prose."-Mark Doty
- "An extraordinary memoir about the body and the soul."-Richard Rodriguez
- Lambda Prize-winning poet
- Excerpted in New York Times Magazine
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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Life with Sam (Paperback)
Simeon Hutner; Elizabeth Hutner; Contributions by Rafael Campo
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Discovery Miles 4 260
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The collection is Liz Hutner's powerful testament to her son, Sam,
bravely battling leukemia. The quietly eloquent photographs by
Hutner's brother and Sam's uncle, Simeon Hutner, beautifully
enhance this portrait of intimacy and courage. The poems do not shy
from the gritty details of the medical ordeal the mother faces with
her son. But there are many glimpses of joy, too, often found in
the ordinary moment of childhood, so few of which Sam is permitted
to know.
This work aims to bridge the clinical distance of medicine to face
the pain of mortality, the brokenness of society and the
vulnerability of human beings.
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