"Rafael Campo is one of the most significant poets writing in America today. In exploring the complexities of his position–Cuban American, gay, Harvard grad, physician, scrupulous observer of himself, of others, and of the worlds we inhabit–he has produced a richly textured, layered body of work, distinguished for its mastery of, and wrestling with, poetic form, as well as for its courage, compassion, and clarity. Hybrid–a mix of memory and desire, trust and fear, anger and love–his work has always been death-haunted yet he speaks for what is alive and healing in American culture."–Alicia Suskin Ostriker, author of No Heaven