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Author: Rafael/ Garcia Lorca Campo
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780822324171
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Buy.com Sku: 30515061
Item#: RYW2HK
Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6.25L x 0.5T
Pages: 104
 
"I know of no poet writing today with more courage and compassion than Rafael Campo. Like the practicing physician that he is, Campo writes poems that heal artfully--or honestly face the impossibility of healing. Here we find sonnets for the damned, songs for the dying, the insistence on empathy for a prostitute with AIDS on a Boston street corner. There is the unforgiving squint of a mother rejecting her gay son. Yet there is a soaring lyricism in these poems, epiphany and redemption, a celebration of bloodstained, stubborn life as it bursts forth. The poems of Rafael Campo inspire that sharp breath of recognition. He has all my gratitude and admiration."--Martin Espada, author of "Imagine the Angels of Bread "
 
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In this third collection of poems by Campo, his identity as a Cuban, a gay man, and a medical doctor administering to patients with AIDS, all bear on his project. Translations of Garcia Lorca's "Sonetos" conclude the volume.

 
 

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Chapter One


    The New World's History in Three Voices


Confusing Cuba with a wealthy land,
Columbus started what for centuries
has plagued the people who survived in me:
part-slave, part-royalty, part-Caliban,

cross-dresser in the golden silk the sea
rolls out along a beach that isn't mine,
American yet un-American
because not one of us is truly free,

I am compelled to sing in rhyme
forgetting what the end of beauty is.
I know that beauty is both grand and wise;
I know that Cuba's dying is a crime

that started with Columbus and his lies.
The Caliban in me will dance as if
he understands that beauty is like love;
the royalty in me could do with less,

but always wants wha
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