![]() See our calendar on the left sidebar for more information. Both works examine the nature of identity and use a mixture of poetry, essays, and visual art to discuss race and racism in contemporary culture. ![]() She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2013 to 2018. 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’s Citizen: An American Lyric is in conversation with her previous multi-genre book, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Born in Jamaica in 1963, Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), which received the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. “Please, doctor, can you heal me?”Įxcerpt from “Illness as Muse” by Rafael Campo, poet, essayist, and physician. ![]() 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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