And finally, a new poetry book has been released with some unlikely contributors. “Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak” is a volume of poems written by prisoners at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo attorney and Northern Illinois Law School Professor Marc Falkoff helped compile the book.
Marc Falkoff: “The book is meant to humanize the men, and it’s meant to really provoke discussion in the U.S. about what Guantanamo is, what it’s become, what it means for us as a country to keep this lawless zone active.”
The book is 84 pages. Military censors barred thousands of lines of poetry from being released.