I think, Roger, poetry is worth its worthlessness, as we all are.
Racter
2008/6/27 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> so poetry is worth something.
>
> Champillon
>
> On 6/21/08, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Actually, the first thing I want to 'share' with you all I found only by
>> happenstance; the friends we were traveling with brought along a recent copy
>> of Utne Reader, with a review of this new book, Poems from Guantanamo,
>> edited by some of the lawyers representing the detainees. Who had a lot of
>> trouble even getting permission to translate & publish the poems, having to
>> vet every one of them with the Pentagon. As the article said, 'The US
>> government contends that poetry presents a "special risk" to national
>> security, since the form lends itself to coded communication.'
>>
>> Now we know, we poets.
>>
>> On the loose,
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> (you can imagine what these poems actually say...)
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, and in a state of
>> civilization, expects what never was and never will be. --
>> Thomas Jefferson
>>
>
>
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