false 898108 1 A celebrated poet and doctor connects&#151;through favorite verses and stories from his life and practice&#151;poetry and healing. <P>As a respected and much-loved doctor, Rafael Campo shares favorite poems with patients on his rounds. After all, incantation has played a role in healing for millennia, displaced only recently by modern scientific obsessions. <P>In this luminous book, Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, offering "pharmaceutical" samples of work by a diverse group of poets such as Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Miroslav Holub, Audre Lorde, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams. He leads us through the stages of illness and recuperation, from first inklings of mortality through symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and finally recovery or&#151;and here medicine recoils but poetry perseveres&#151;death, and even immortality. <P>At each stage, Campo reveals the richness of individual poems and the potent medicine they offer. Ultimately, he proposes a "biocultural" model of illness as provocative as it is humane&#151;one that restores the art of poetry to its rightful place at the heart of a healthy society. 10 b/w illustrations. 883295 8 2003 The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry total:2|4:1|3:1| 2 7 10 0 0 0 false false Mon Jan 12 20:30:51 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 20:30:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 10 07:42:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 07:42:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 31 18:55:10 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 18:55:12 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 31 08:57:37 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 08:57:37 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Aug 29 08:36:18 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 09:08:37 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Aug 06 11:41:36 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 11:41:39 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue May 06 12:26:18 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 12:26:18 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Apr 05 05:27:44 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 05:27:44 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Feb 03 16:57:22 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 16:57:28 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jan 12 15:53:16 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 15:53:16 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=898108