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Poems from Guantánamo : the detainees speak / edited by Marc Falkoff ; preface by Flagg Miller ; afterword by Ariel Dorfman.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library PJ7694.E3 P56 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Pushto
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners' writings, Arabic--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base--Translations into English.
- Prisoners' writings, Arabic.
- Prisoners' writings, Pushto--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base--Translations into English.
- Prisoners' writings, Pushto.
- Arabic poetry--Translations into English.
- Arabic poetry.
- Pushto poetry--Translations into English.
- Pushto poetry.
- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)--Poetry.
- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba).
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Poetry.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 72 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- This collection gives voice to the men held at Guantanamo. Available only because of the tireless efforts of pro bono attorneys who submitted each line to Pentagon scrutiny, "Poems from Guantanamo" brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantanamo, in legal limbo.
- Contents:
- They fight for peace / Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer
- O prison darkness / Abdulaziz
- I shall not complain / Abdulaziz
- To my father / Abdulla Thani Faris al-Anazi
- Lions in the cage / Ustad Badruzzaman Badr
- Homeward bound / Moazzam Begg
- Death poem / Jumah al Dossari
- They cannot help / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost
- Cup poems 1. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost
- Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost
- Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost
- First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani
- Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj
- The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan
- Is it true? / Osama Abu Kabir
- Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif
- I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad
- Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga
- I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity
- My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity
- Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish
- Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781587296062
- 1587296063
- OCLC:
- 85830658
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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