This article in the Guardian collects together some of the books which the authorities who run Guatanamo Bay refuse to allow their prisoners to read. If you can figure out their logic you’re doing better then me!
However, one whole class of writing gets an outright ban – poetry!
Poetry … presents a special risk, and DOD [Department of Defense] standards are to not approve the release of any poetry in its original form or language. This is based on an analysis of risk of both content and format
You know, terrible and ridiculous as this whole sorry episode is, there’s a bit of me which is in awe of the power of poetry – for me, that’s something to celebrate, not to fear.
Heroes Not Zombies 
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