Rafael Campo

Biography

Rafael Campo teaches and practices medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His books include Diva (Duke, 2000), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Landscape with Human Figure (Duke, 2002), winner of the Gold Medal from ForeWord magazine; and The Healing Art (Norton, 2003). His website is www.rafaelcampo.com.

See Work

ESSAYS / Spring 2005

Whitman Now

By Rafael Campo

To contemplate Walt Whitman now, at the dawn of a new millennium in an America so deeply troubled by division and hypocrisy—almost the antithesis of the great nation of inclusion and tolerance he envisioned in Leaves of Grass—is intensely...

POETRY / Spring 2004

Pantoum for Our Imagined Breakup

By Rafael Campo

I can’t imagine breaking up with you.
Instead, I think about the neighbors’ problems:
His anguished look seems punishment for truth;
his “other half” is thin and Puerto Rican.

POETRY / Spring 2004

Addressed to Her

By Rafael Campo

On seeing you that second time last night,
Pat Benatar a disembodied blare
amidst a night yet ravenous for dares,
I thought I’d talk to you, to ask you why