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Rafael Campo, the poet and physician, speaks about his newest book of poetry, The Enemy.

Rafael Campo is a poet and essayist who teaches and practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Amherst College, a National Poetry Series award, and a Lambda Literary Award for his poetry. His third collection of poetry, Diva (Duke University Press, 2000), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Landscape with Human Figure (Duke University Press, 2002) won the Gold Medal from ForeWord for the best book of poetry published by an independent press. His newest book of poetry, The Enemy, was recently awarded the Sheila Motton Book Prize for the best collection of poetry published in 2007 by the New England Poetry Club, the nation's oldest poetry organization.