That's interesting, Anny. I had not come across it, & now the book is
out, but the 'news' remains the same....
It's the quoted sentence that really got me going....
Doug
On 22-Jun-08, at 10:14 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> This is not news. I remember reading several articles online on
> these poems,
> was that maybe a year ago? Also an interview (cannot remember to
> whom),
> probably the lawyer who translated them, and a site of the same
> lawyer?
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, 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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>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a
> dancing
> star!
>
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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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