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Rafael Campo is a poet and physician who practices medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His books include The Healing Art and Landscape with Human Figure.
In the face of the AIDS crisis, physical expressions of love are as revolutionary as the act of writing poetry.
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