The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World - Softcover

Campo, Rafael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558851119 ISBN 13: 9781558851115

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 1994

Synopsis

National Poetry Series winner, gay Latino

About this title

From the Publisher

Winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition; Finalist in the American Library Association's 1995 Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award in the literature category; Finalist in the PEN Center USA West 1995 Literary Awards in the poetry category; and Finalist in the Lambda Book Award in the gay men's poetry category.

Review

"The stories Campo's sonnets tell in their episodic vignettes are thoroughly gripping." -- Voice Literary Supplement

"This is a very powerful collection of poems about identity, familia, and love." -- Multicultural Review

Age 5, Born With Aids
Aida
Allegory
Another Poem In English
Aunt Toni's Heart
Belonging
Cafe Pamplona
Camino Real
The Distant Moon
A Dying Art
El Curandero (the Healer)
The End Of Shame
Finally
For J. W.
I Don't Want What I Can't Say, Or, Genet On Keats
Illness
In The Form
The Lost Plaza Is Everywhere
The Love Of Someone
San Fernando
Song For My Father: 1. My Father's Childhood
Song For My Father: 10. On Vacation From Medical School
Song For My Father: 11. What My Mother Says
Song For My Father: 12. Love Poem
Song For My Father: 13. I Dream I'm Him
Song For My Father: 14. I Imagine He Is Ill
Song For My Father: 15. Untitled
Song For My Father: 16. Sonnet For My Father
Song For My Father: 2. Keats And Shakespeare
Song For My Father: 3. Planning A Family
Song For My Father: 4. Family Dinner
Song For My Father: 5. Their Long Vacations In Hawaii
Song For My Father: 6. Advice For The New World
Song For My Father: 7. Honest
Song For My Father: 8. My Father's View Of Poetry
Song For My Father: 9. My Patient's Heart Attack
Song For My Grandfather: 1. Guantanamo
Song For My Grandfather: 1. Guantanamo
Song For My Grandfather: 10. 10509 Sw Terrace
Song For My Grandfather: 11. Anatomy Lesson
Song For My Grandfather: 12. Cuban Poetry
Song For My Grandfather: 13. The Funeral
Song For My Grandfather: 14. The Things I Don't Remember
Song For My Grandfather: 15. The Decline Of The Spanish Empi
Song For My Grandfather: 2. The Medicine Cabinet
Song For My Grandfather: 3. The Cure For Cancer
Song For My Grandfather: 4. Grandfather's Will
Song For My Grandfather: 5. The Cockroach Game
Song For My Grandfather: 6. Roses In Little Havana
Song For My Grandfather: 7. His Face
Song For My Grandfather: 8. His House In Spain
Song For My Grandfather: 9. Miami Se Habla Espanol
Song For My Lover: 1. The Consequences Of Love
Song For My Lover: 10. We Wear Each Other's Levi's
Song For My Lover: 11. A Medical Student Learns Love And Dea
Song For My Lover: 12. Denial
Song For My Lover: 13. Towards Curing Aids
Song For My Lover: 14. Poem In Jorge's Voice
Song For My Lover: 15. Political Poem
Song For My Lover: 16. Sonnet For Our Son
Song For My Lover: 2. What I Learned From My Parents
Song For My Lover: 3. Oxford
Song For My Lover: 4. When Rafael Met Jorge
Song For My Lover: 5. The Wedding Gifts
Song For My Lover: 6. Our Country Of Origin
Song For My Lover: 7. He Interprets The Dream
Song For My Lover: 8. We're Moving To San Francisco
Song For My Lover: 9. Translation
Song For Our Son: 1. The Cycle Begins Anew
Song For Our Son: 10. Gay Parents Are Neither
Song For Our Son: 11. I Take Our Son To Cuba
Song For Our Son: 12. Gay Freedom Park
Song For Our Son: 13. The Pediatrician Who Cured Himself
Song For Our Son: 14. The Sonnet After This Must Wait
Song For Our Son: 14. What Loving Parents Are
Song For Our Son: 15. Afterthought
Song For Our Son: 15. The Daughter Of My Imagination
Song For Our Son: 2. Adoption
Song For Our Son: 3. He Becomes A World-renowned Scientist
Song For Our Son: 5. Kindergarten
Song For Our Son: 6. My Brother's Opinion
Song For Our Son: 7. I Explain Again
Song For Our Son: 8. His College Education
Song For Our Son: 9. Birthday Party
Sonnet No. 904
Technology And Medicine
--Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1558851119
• ISBN 13: 9781558851115
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118