What the Body Told

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."

oCampo is one of the most attractive, interesting andNI can think of no better wordNvaluable poets of his generation. The news he has to tell is the news we need, and his talent, happily, is equal to his message.ONRichard Howard oRafael Campo is one of the most gifted and accomplished younger poets writing in English. More than that, he is a writer engaged in several of the pivotal struggles/issues of our era, and what he has to say about them is Onews that stays news.OONMarilyn Hacker oCampoOs background and concernsNhe writes out of his identity and experience as a gay Cuban-American physicianNmake 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.ONMark Doty