Conspiracy to Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering at Guantánamo Bay

Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Winter 2007

NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #33

9 Pages Posted: 12 Nov 2009

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Marc D. Falkoff

Northern Illinois University - College of Law

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

The idea to publish a volume of detainee poetry came to me, oddly enough, while I was reading a book of poems written by a U.S. infantry team leader during his stint in the Iraq War. As I paged through Brian Turner's Here, Bullet, I was struck by how the soldier-poet opened himself to the strangeness of the Mesopotamian war zone, shoring fragments from the battlefield to build poems of terrible stillness and beauty.

Suggested Citation

Falkoff, Marc D., Conspiracy to Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering at Guantánamo Bay (2007). Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Winter 2007, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #33, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1502989

Marc D. Falkoff (Contact Author)

Northern Illinois University - College of Law ( email )

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DeKalb, IL 60115
United States

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