Poems from Guantanamo
Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any hostile act against the United States or its allies. In hundreds of cases, even the circumstances of their initial detainment are questionable.\ This collection gives voice to the men held at Guantánamo. Available only because of the tireless efforts of pro bono attorneys who submitted each line to...
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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.
Acknowledgments ixNotes on Guantanamo Marc Falkoff 1Forms of Suffering in Muslim Prison Poetry Flagg Miller 7They Fight for Peace Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer 19O Prison Darkness Abdulaziz 21I Shall Not Complain Abdulaziz 23To My Father Abdullah Thani Faris al Anazi 24Lions in the Gage Ustad Badruzzaman Badr 27Homeward Bound Moazzam Begg 29Death Poem Jumah al Dossari 31They Cannot Help Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost 33Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost 35Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost 35Two Fragments Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost 36First Poem of My Life Mohammed el Gharani 37Humiliated in the Shackles Sami al Haj 41The Truth Emad Abdullah Hassan 44Is It True? Osama Abu Kabir 49Hunger Strike Poem Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif 51I Am Sorry, My Brother Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad 53Terrorist 2003 Martin Mubanga 55I Write My Hidden Longing, Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the Captive of Dignity 58My Heart Was Wounded by the Strangeness, Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the Captive of Dignity 61Ode to the Sea Ibrahim al Rubaish 64Even if the Pain Siddiq Turkestani 67Where the Buried Flame Burns Ariel Dorfman 69
