You can stave off franchise fatigue a lot longer if you quietly kick the numbers under the rug after about four entries.īut nothing holds off franchise fatigue forever. How many modern franchises, besides Final Fantasy, ever have numbers that large attached to them? Bugger all, is the answer there's a good reason why Call of Duty threw it out the window, and it's that big numbers like that tend to go along with smaller sales. If Ubisoft had maintained conventional numbering, Unity would have been Assassin's Creed 7. Since Cuba is a socialist republic, almost everyone works for the government.The always effervescent Forbes on the buggy launch of Assassin's Creed: Unity.Īssassin's Creed is now seven core entries in.
I have been working with Cuban poet Manuel Alberto Garcia Alonso, who is a poet, novelist, actor, theater director, and a cultural director in the Cuban city of Trinidad.
has somewhat relaxed the embargo on written work, but the embargo still covers those who work for the Cuban government. (Arcade and the PEN Center are readying to publish an anthology of post-revolution Iranian writers. Ebadie and publisher Arcade Books, joined the Association of American University Presses and PEN American Center in a lawsuit against the U S Treasury Dept. One author, Shirin Ebadi,Iranian activist, judge, lawyer and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, had little hope of seeing her book in print in her own country, but was surprised to learn that any US publisher who decided to publish her book would have risked up to 10 years in jail and fines starting at $250,000 under the Treasury Department's embargo laws. The literature embargo has been changing over the last few months, due to public pressure, articles in places like the New York Times book review, and the threat of court cases by publishers. Which I cooked for two minutes with dried tomatoes,Ĭrushed garlic, and a tablespoon of basil.Īs I eat, the learned minister of foreign affairsĪnd a poem by Maxine Kumin, from the Nation (Jan.23,2006) We need to listen closely, and make a new future for the world.Ī poem from Aharon Shabtai, from his book J'Accuse, translated by Peter Cole These poems, and the short biographical sketches which accompany them, let us see these up until now nameless, faceless "detainees" as human beings, creative, passionate friends, brothers, poets. Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the "protectors of peace." Let them bear the burden before their children and before history, Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.Īnd let them bear the guilty burden before the world, Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely. Where is the world to save the hunger strikers? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? Where is the world to save us from torture? They leave us in prison for years, uncharged, Many of the poems have been lost, confiscated or destroyed, and a number have yet to be cleared for publication, but this small collection speaks with loud voices.Īdnan Farhan Abdul Latif, in a poem called Hunger Strike Poem, says: ($13.95, hardcover) The detainees have been composing and writing poetry, but the Pentagon has refused to declassify the poems, saying that poetry "presents a special risk" to national security because of its "content and format". Talk about embargoed poets! The University of Iowa Press has just published a collection of poems by Guantanamo prisoners called : Poems from Guantanamo - The Detainees Speak.
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