The University of Iowa's book
Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak got a very compelling write-up in the
Wall Street Journal today. Among the details: prisoners scratched poems on stryofoam cups with pebbles and passed them between the bars. The military censored some of the poems, citing the possibility of hidden messages in the verses, but verses like "To be with my children, each a part of me/to be with my wife and the ones I love/to be with my parents, my world's tenderest hearts,/I dream to be home, to be free from this cage" don't seem to be hiding their content at all.
See my earlier post about this topic
here.
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