In his fifth collection of poetry the physician and awardwinning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share he writes of a country endlessly at warampampmdashnot only against the presumed enemy abroad but also with its own troubled conscience. Yet whether he is addressing the U.S. invasion of Iraq the battle against the AIDS pandemic or the culture wars surrounding the issues of feminism and gay marriage Campoampamprsquos compelling poems affirm the notion that hope arises from even the most bitter of conflicts. That hopeampampmdashmanifest here in the Cuban exileampamprsquos dream of returning to his homeland in a dying IV drug userampamprsquos wish for humane medical treatment in a downcast housewifeampamprsquos desire to express herself meaningfully through artampampmdashis that somehow we can be better than ourselves. Through a kaleidoscopic lens of poetic forms Campo soulfully reveals this greatest of human aspirations as the one sustaining us all.