Alternative medicine / Rafael Campo.

  • Campo, Rafael.
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Description

In this new collection of poetry, the acclaimed gay Latino physician author Rafael Campo continues his nuanced examination of the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. --Publishers description

Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Physical description

x, 90 pages ; 23 cm

Contributors

Contents

Havana -- My kind of love poem -- A history of poetry -- Wilhelmina Shakespeare -- The common mental health disorders of immigrants -- Advanced placement -- Elegy for a revolution -- Patriotic anthem for a lost homeland -- Resort -- New Jersey, the garden state -- Rio Grande -- Fish story -- Times Square -- Calendar -- The thief -- Batteries not included -- Kids' games -- Heart grow fonder -- Trees -- Promnesia -- The reading -- Hospital song -- Faith healing -- Iatrogenic -- The third step in obtaining an arterial blood gas -- After the floods -- For all the freaks of the world -- Pharmacopeia for the new millennium -- Recent past events -- Alternative medicine -- Band of gold -- Primary care -- Nude -- Not untrue -- On the wards -- Without my white coat -- Health -- Why doctors write -- Reforming health care -- The performance -- Ode to the lists in front of me -- LAX -- Plonk -- Views of heaven -- Paternity -- The massage -- On the anniversary of the terrorist attacks -- Interrogative -- Dreams -- The golden age of Venetian painting -- Shared -- Within -- Love song for love songs -- Poem written at 5am on the sweetness of life -- What the dead see -- Sestina in red -- The destruction of the temples of Machu Picchu.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CD.AI
    Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9780822355731
  • 0822355736
  • 9780822355878
  • 0822355876