{"title":"Marc Falkoff","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the poignant and thought-provoking poetry of Marc Falkoff. His work explores themes of war, injustice, and resilience, offering a powerful voice to the voiceless. Browse his collections today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"poems-from-guantanamo-book-marc-falkoff-9781587296062","title":"Poems from Guantanamo","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eSince 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any hostile act against the United States or its allies. In hundreds of cases, even the circumstances of their initial detainment are questionable.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This collection gives voice to the men held at Guantánamo. Available only because of the tireless efforts of pro bono attorneys who submitted each line to Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantánamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantánamo, in legal limbo.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If, in the words of Audre Lorde, poetry \"forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change,\" these verses--some originally written in toothpaste, others scratched onto foam drinking cups with pebbles and furtively handed to attorneys--are the most basic form of the art.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Death Poem by Jumah al Dossari\u003cbr\u003e Take my blood.\u003cbr\u003e Take my death shroud and\u003cbr\u003e The remnants of my body.\u003cbr\u003e Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Send them to the world,\u003cbr\u003e To the judges and\u003cbr\u003e To the people of conscience,\u003cbr\u003e Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And let them bear the guilty burden before the world,\u003cbr\u003e Of this innocent soul.\u003cbr\u003e Let them bear the burden before their children and before history,\u003cbr\u003e Of this wasted, sinless soul,\u003cbr\u003e Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the \"protectors or peace.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jumah al Dossari is a thirty-three-year old Bahraini who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than five years. He has been in solitary confinement since the end of 2003 and, according to the U.S. military, has tried to kill himself twelve times while in custody.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550842986769,"sku":"GOR001930137","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889753497873,"sku":"CIN1587296063G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51903811977489,"sku":"GOR010476114","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52599230169361,"sku":"CIN1587296063VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52862611849489,"sku":"GOR003831421","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53047657726225,"sku":"CIN1587296063A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1587296063.jpg?v=1750719182"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-marc-falkoff.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}