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Poems by Guantanamo detainees
Check it out:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/america/NA-GEN-US-Guantanamo-Detainee-Poetry.php
http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/10275
http://cheatseekingmissiles.blogspot.com/2007/06/guantanamo-poems-what-were-we-thinking.html
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/17/MNGKQDPCV51.DTL&type=printable
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/01/sb-the-waste-land-1169582427
Leanne from Just west of the lounge room Associate, 3019 posts |
An interesting idea for a project -- though I rather doubt there could be anything but political motive involved -- on the one hand, it's good for the prisoners to have a voice, on the other I'm not sure if this is great for poetry on the whole. It's kind of similar to being able to write a book just because you've survived in the Himalayas with just a Mars Bar. |
White_Feather from Here and There 302 posts |
According to the article, Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost was apparently already a poet, journalist and scholar before he was detained. He says, ""I was not unhappy for being detained because I learned a lot. I wrote from the core of my heart in Guantanamo Bay. In the outside world I could not have written such things." I'd be interested in reading his work. |
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