Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2016

by Rafael Campo

Book Overview

In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine poems--thirty-one of which have never been previously published in a collection--pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos. The poet, who is also truly a healer, revives language itself--its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147800021X
• ISBN13: 9781478000211
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.9"