Pax-salon Mailing List: Poems from Guantanamo

[patty (pattypax]

	Hi, Next Tuesday's salon will be reading and listening to the poems 
written by the detainees at Guantanamo.

> The words of the celebrated Pakistani poet were scratched on the sides 
> of a Styrofoam cup with a pebble. Then, under the eyes of Guantanamo 
> Bay's prison guards, they were secretly passed from cell to cell. When 
> the guards discovered what was going on, they smashed the containers 
> and threw them away, fearing that it was a way of passing coded 
> messages.
>
> Fragments of these "cup poems" survived, however, and are included in 
> an 84-page anthology entitled Poems from Guantanamo: the Detainees 
> Speak.
   If you don't have the book, you can find some of the poems on the 
internet.  Google the name of the book.
   Please come.

   Thanks,
   Patty


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People want to know
Who we are
So we tell them
We are the people
The mighty mighty people