Diva

A new collection of poems examining issues of the poet's Cuban identity, his work as a physician, and his life as a gay man.

Journal of the American Medical Association

[This book] carries the density of fine poetry requiring concentration and also weaves a heavy mood. We are confronted with an authentic voice struggling with eternal issues, with anguish, with pain. It is almost unrelenting. Its implicit message is an appeal for compassion—"the awful hemorrhage/Of wishing that we were the same inside."

Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of The Other Man Was Me, which won the 1993 National Poetry Series award; The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire, winner of a 1997 Lambda Literary Award for Memoir; and What the Body Told, published by Duke University Press and winner of a 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Campo’s poetry, prose, and reviews have appeared in many major anthologies and periodicals.