What the Body Told
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-1733-3 (ISBN)
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What the Body Told is the second book of poetry from Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, a gay Cuban American, and winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition. Exploring the themes begun in his first book, The Other Man Was Me, Campo extends the search for identity into new realms of fantasy and physicality. He travels inwardly to the most intimate spaces of the imagination where sexuality and gender collide and where life crosses into death. Whether facing a frenetic hospital emergency room to assess a patient critically ill with AIDS, or breathing in the quiet of his mother’s closet, Campo proposes with these poems an alternative means of healing and exposes the extent to which words themselves may be the most vital working parts of our bodies. The secret truths in What the Body Told, as the title implies, are already within each of us; in these vivid and provocative poems, Rafael Campo gives them a voice.Lost in the Hospital
It’s not that I don’t like the hospital.
Those small bouquets of flowers, pert and brave.
The smell of antiseptic cleansers.
The ill, so wistful in their rooms, so true.
My friend, the one who’s dying, took me out
To where the patients go to smoke, IV’s
And oxygen tanks attached to them—
A tiny patio for skeletons. We shared
A cigaratte, which was delicious but
Too brief. I held his hand; it felt
Like someone’s keys. How beautiful it was,
The sunlight pointing down at us, as if
We were important, full of life, unbound.
I wandered for a moment where his ribs
Had made a space for me, and there, beside
The thundering waterfall of is heart,
I rubbed my eyes and thought “I’m lost.”
Rafael Campo is Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Author of The Other Man Was Me, he is a PEN Center West and Lambda Literary Award finalist. His poems have appeared in many publications, including The Kenyon Review, Parnassus, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry/1995.
I. Defining Us
So In Love 3
Route 17 4
The Crying Game 7
Asylum 8
The Passive Voice 9
Before Safe Sex 10
The Battle Hymn of the Republic 11
Defining Us 13
I Become Charlotte 14
My Feminine Side 15
Once There Was Great Love 16
II. Canciones de la Vida
Canción de las Mujeres 21
Song for Our Daughter 37
III. For You All Beauty
For You All Beauty 55
The 10,000th AIDS Death in San Francisco 37
Safe Sex 58
Prescription 59
The Good Doctor 60
Ten Patients, and Another 61
Confession 72
Lost in the Hospital 73
IV. Canciones de la Muerte
Song Before Dying 77
The Immortal Song 93
V. What the Body Told
My Childhood in Another Part of the World 111
What We All Want 112
The Cuban Sky 113
Madrid 114
In English That Is Spanish 115
My Voice 116
Remembering Why 117
El Día de los Muertos 119
Safe Sex Revisited 121
What the Body Told 122
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-1733-8 / 0822317338 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-1733-3 / 9780822317333 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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