Under the black nylon bags, where the cuts and the bruises were, we never really had a chance to hear what the prisoners at Abu Ghraib had to tell us. Using the testimony of the actual prisoners as reported by the International Red Cross, poet Jabez L. Van Cleef has created a book-length poem detailing the stories of these prisoners. You are invited to listen and reflect on the dynamics of power and subservience implicit in this assertion of American power and its imperial aspirations.
