![]() See our calendar on the left sidebar for more information. Your book, Citizen: An American Lyric, has won the National Book Critics’ Circle poetry award in the US. Campo will deliver a public lecture called “Training the Eye, Hearing the Heart: Art, Poetry, and Healing” on April 21st at 12pm at the Blanton Museum of Art, sponsored by the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies, with support from the Humanities Institute. Claudia Rankine: ‘It has taken me a while to train myself to speak out.’. There I go you ask, feeling irritation begin to rain down. The people around you have turned away from their screens. Come on, no need to get all KKK on them, you say. ![]() “Please, doctor, can you heal me?”Įxcerpt from “Illness as Muse” by Rafael Campo, poet, essayist, and physician. He is holding the lidded paper cup in one hand and a small paper bag in the other. Soon enough, my patients start to arrive, and the way they want me to understand what they are feeling only immerses me more deeply in language’s compelling alchemy: “The pain is like a cold, bitter wind blowing through my womb,” murmurs a young infertile woman from Guatemala with what I have diagnosed much less eloquently as chronic pelvic pain. Of course, the next morning always comes and I find myself in my clinic again, the exam room speaking aloud in all of its blatant metaphors-the huge clock above where my patients sit implacably measuring lifetimes the space itself narrow and compressed as a sonnet-and immediately I’m back to thinking about writing. ![]()
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