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Poems from Guantanamo : the detainees speak / edited by Marc Falkoff ; preface by Flagg Miller ; afterword by Ariel Dorfman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners' writings, Arabic--Cuba--Guantanamo Bay Naval Base--Translations into English.
- Prisoners' writings, Arabic.
- Prisoners' writings, Pushto--Cuba--Guantanamo Bay Naval Base--Translations into English.
- Prisoners' writings, Pushto.
- Arabic poetry--21st century--Translations into English.
- Arabic poetry.
- Pushto poetry--21st century--Translations into English.
- Pushto poetry.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Poetry.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp--Poetry.
- Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 72 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-718-3
- OCLC:
- 294859541
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