Conspiracy to Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering at Guantánamo Bay
Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Winter 2007
9 Pages Posted: 12 Nov 2009
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: 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
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