Diva
- List Price: $94.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/1999
Description:
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.
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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.
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