Rafael Campo is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and author of several books, including Alternative Medicine, The Enemy, and Landscape with Human Figure, all also published by Duke University Press, and The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry.

Other poems by Rafael Campo in Verse Daily:
January 26, 2014:   "My Kind of Love Poem" "Unluckily, the day begins: a bomb..."
September 1, 2007:   "Allegorical" " In the beginning, time was animal...."
July 16, 2002:  "The Couple" "Releasing his determined grip..."

Books by Rafael Campo:

Other poems on the web by Rafael Campo:
Nine poems
Five poems

Rafael Campo's Website.

*Rafael Campo According to Wikipedia.

Rafael Campo on Twitter.

Rafael Campo on Facebook.

About Comfort Measures Only:

"The poems of Rafael Campo bear witness to human suffering and transform that witness into art, yet never exploit the suffering or sacrifice the art. Indeed, this is an unflinching eye, seeing what most of us would rather not see. Listen to the beating heart of these poems, the breathing lungs of these poems. The luminous language and the luminous vision offer proof that poetry, too, is a healing art, that storytelling is medicinal. In these times, we need poets of eloquent empathy more than ever, and there is no poet more eloquent or empathetic than Rafael Campo."
—Marin Espada

"Comfort Measures Only is the exploration of the sonic life of the body synthesized through the pumping amplifier of left and right ventricle. These nearly two hundred pages of twenty years of poetic witness provide a human swallowing test: How hard can we bite down on bone and not break a tooth? How much rose water and blood can we take in without drowning? Rafael Campo believes grace and levitation are possible until the last breath."
—Nikky Finney