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Previous Volume 358:437-438 January 24, 2008 Number 4

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By Rafael Campo. 99 pp. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2007. $59.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8223-3862-8 (cloth); 978-0-8223-3960-1 (paper).

For a poet whose work as both a doctor and a poet is about striving to make things whole, it is interesting that Rafael Campo's latest collection of poetry has such a divisive title. But without an enemy we would not know war and separation, and without war and separation we would not know peace and connection.

Rafael Campo is a clinician specializing in internal medicine, and an author of poetry and prose. In his nonfiction (The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998; The Healing Art: A Doctor's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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