{"product_id":"what-the-body-told-hardcover","title":"What the Body Told - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRafael Campo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Told\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Man Was Me\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Told\u003c\/i\u003e, as the title implies, are already within each of us; in these vivid and provocative poems, Rafael Campo gives them a voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost in the Hospital\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e It's not that I don't like the hospital.\u003cbr\u003eThose small bouquets of flowers, pert and brave.\u003cbr\u003eThe smell of antiseptic cleansers.\u003cbr\u003eThe ill, so wistful in their rooms, so true.\u003cbr\u003eMy friend, the one who's dying, took me out\u003cbr\u003eTo where the patients go to smoke, IV's\u003cbr\u003eAnd oxygen tanks attached to them--\u003cbr\u003eA tiny patio for skeletons. We shared\u003cbr\u003eA cigaratte, which was delicious but\u003cbr\u003eToo brief. I held his hand; it felt\u003cbr\u003eLike someone's keys. How beautiful it was, \u003cbr\u003eThe sunlight pointing down at us, as if\u003cbr\u003eWe were important, full of life, unbound.\u003cbr\u003eI wandered for a moment where his ribs\u003cbr\u003eHad made a space for me, and there, beside\u003cbr\u003eThe thundering waterfall of is heart, \u003cbr\u003eI rubbed my eyes and thought \"I'm lost.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampo's background and concerns--he writes out of his identity and experience as a gay Cuban-American physician--make for a rich field of investigations, and his best work is both passionate and formally accomplished. What the Body Told\" dives into the difficult, necessary territory of physical love, desire, contagion, illness; such poems are essential to our moment. We need them.\"--Mark Doty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRafael Campo is Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Man Was Me\u003c\/i\u003e, he is a PEN Center West and Lambda Literary Award finalist. His poems have appeared in many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParnassus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\/1995\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.2 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48541645439225,"sku":"9780822317333","price":161.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eQmAxrP_v9780822317333.webp?v=1781734929","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/what-the-body-told-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}