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Guantanamo Kavithaikal
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 Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantánamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantánamo, in legal limbo, published by Marc Falkoff, a US professor of law with a doctorate in American literature. If, in the words of Audre Lorde, poetry "forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change," these verses-some originally written in toothpaste, others scratched onto foam drinking cups with pebbles and furtively handed to attorneys-are the most basic form of the art. The collection is translated into tamil by poet and writer Mankuthirai.
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Guantanamo Kavithaikal
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 Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantánamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantánamo, in legal limbo, published by Marc Falkoff, a US professor of law with a doctorate in American literature. If, in the words of Audre Lorde, poetry "forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change," these verses-some originally written in toothpaste, others scratched onto foam drinking cups with pebbles and furtively handed to attorneys-are the most basic form of the art. The collection is translated into tamil by poet and writer Mankuthirai.
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Guantanamo Kavithaikal

Guantanamo Kavithaikal

by Translated M Compiled Marc Falkoff
Guantanamo Kavithaikal

Guantanamo Kavithaikal

by Translated M Compiled Marc Falkoff

Overview

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 Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantánamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantánamo, in legal limbo, published by Marc Falkoff, a US professor of law with a doctorate in American literature. If, in the words of Audre Lorde, poetry "forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change," these verses-some originally written in toothpaste, others scratched onto foam drinking cups with pebbles and furtively handed to attorneys-are the most basic form of the art. The collection is translated into tamil by poet and writer Mankuthirai.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789352440467
Publisher: Kalachuvadu Publications Pvt Ltd
Publication date: 05/01/2016
Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)
Language: Tamil
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