"Campo'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
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I. Defining Us
So In Love 3
Route 17 4
The Crying Game 7
Asylum 8
The Passive Voice 9
Before Safe Sex 10
The Battle Hymn of the Republic 11
Defining Us 13
I Become Charlotte 14
My Feminine Side 15
Once There Was Great Love 16
II. Canciones de la Vida
Canción de las Mujeres 21
Song for Our Daughter 37
III. For You All Beauty
For You All Beauty 55
The 10,000th AIDS Death in San Francisco 37
Safe Sex 58
Prescription 59
The Good Doctor 60
Ten Patients, and Another 61
Confession 72
Lost in the Hospital 73
IV. Canciones de la Muerte
Song Before Dying 77
The Immortal Song 93
V. What the Body Told
My Childhood in Another Part of the World 111
What We All Want 112
The Cuban Sky 113
Madrid 114
In English That Is Spanish 115
My Voice 116
Remembering Why 117
El Día de los Muertos 119
Safe Sex Revisited 121
What the Body Told 122
