Poems from Guantánamo
Subtitle: the detainees speak
By: edited by Marc Falkoff ; preface by Flagg Miller ; afterword by Ariel Dorfman
Contributors: Falkoff, Marc
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781587296062
Subjects: Prisoners' writings, Arabic -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base -- Translations into English; Prisoners' writings, Pushto -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base -- Translations into English; Arabic poetry -- Translations into English; Pushto poetry -- Translations into English; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Poetry; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) -- Poetry
Genres: Translations into English; Poetry
Description: Features twenty-two poems written by seventeen men held in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: They fight for peace / Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer; title: O prison darkness / Abdulaziz; title: I shall not complain / Abdulaziz; title: To my father / Abdulla Thani Faris al-Anazi; title: Lions in the cage / Ustad Badruzzaman Badr; title: Homeward bound / Moazzam Begg; title: Death poem / Jumah al Dossari; title: They cannot help / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost; title: Cup poems 1. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost; title: Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost; title: Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost; title: First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani; title: Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj; title: The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan; title: Is it true? / Osama Abu Kabir; title: Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif; title: I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad; title: Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga; title: I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity; title: My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity; title: Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish; title: Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani