Diva / Rafael Campo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campo, Rafael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Poetry.

Hispanic Americans.

Hispanic American gay people--Poetry.

Hispanic American gay people.

Gay men--United States--Poetry.

Gay men.

United States.

Gay people--Identity--Poetry.

Gay people.

Gay people--Identity.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Treatment--Poetry.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Treatment.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 98 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.

Summary:

A major new work from one of America's most acclaimed younger poets, Rafael Campo's Diva appears at the intersection of confession and confinement, hyperbole and humility. In his masterful third collection, Campo explores further the themes of his Cuban heritage and America's newness, his work as a doctor caring for AIDS patients and his identity as a gay man.

At once relishing and resisting the poetic traditions of formal English verse, Diva showcases Campo moving deftly between received forms and free verse. In each poem the sound of words is transformed into the highest of arts, the act of performance into the exercise of power, and the most profound abjection into the sweet promise of divinity. Culminating with his new and daring translations of Federico Garcia Lorca's sonetos -- the great Spanish poet's most homoerotically explicit and formally accomplished poems -- Campo's music instills in the reader an exalted understanding of beauty, suffering, and, ultimately, the human capacity for empathy.

Contents:

I In the Cuban Way

The New World's History in Three Voices 3

The Repeating Island 4

Sonnet in the Cuban Way 6

The Return 7

The Dream of Loving Cuba 8

The Cardiac Exam 10

Suicidal Ideation 11

II Baby Pictures

Madonna and Child 15

Night Inexpressible 16

The Pelvic Exam 17

Baby Pictures 19

Diva 32

A Poet's Education 34

III The Gift of AIDS

The Gift of AIDS 39

The Abdominal Exam 40

Darkest Purple 41

The Changing Face of AIDS 42

A Death Perplexing 60

Small Comfort 61

Drawing Blood 62

IV The X Files

Opposites Attract 65

My Reasoning 66

Three Recent Films 67

Marry Me 72

Recognition 73

The Mental Status Exam 75

The X Files 76

Still Monogamous after Fourteen Years 77

Begging for Change in Winter 78

Last Rites 79

V Lorca

I Am Mrs. Lorca 83

Sonnets of Dark Love (Translated from the Spanish of Federico Garcia Lorca) 84.

Notes:

Includes translated selections from: Sonetos del amor oscuro / Federico García Lorca.

Contains:

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. Sonetos del amor oscuro. English. Selections.

ISBN:

0822323834

0822324172

OCLC:

40776887