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By Rafael Campo. 209 pp. New York, Norton, 2003. $22.95. ISBN 0-393-05727-5.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides, 556–468 B.C.

Other physicians who are writers provoke readers with dramatic scenes from the vantage point of the bedside, but Rafael Campo uses a palette of poetry to provoke the reader to philosophical, even existential thoughts about the ways in which illness and death define human experience.

With poetry by accomplished poets — Marilyn Hacker, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams, among others — Campo, himself a poet, constructs the basic tenet of his book, that "curing and healing are not the same, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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