Description
Nietzscheโs words, now a popular saying, asserts that "that which does not kill us makes us stronger".What is seldom observed, however, is that the real threat often isnโt an external force but an internal one.
The real danger, for example, from physical incarceration and enforced exile as this collection Our Thoughts Are Free shows . . . . is the mental and spiritual asphyxiation that isolation, loneliness and deprivation can cause.
To survive these is the greater struggle and, as history has given us in countless examples, language as creative tool may be instrumental in saving us from ourselves.
This collection of poems and writings is such a record of survival; of those who knew by instinct to let words open doors and windows to connect with a world denied them, the outside, and the one within, the more imperilled.
Highly articulate, their voices uphold the inviolability of the human inner life, and attest to the fruitful relationship between art and adversity. It is said that adversity introduces a man to himself.
ISBN:9789810825119
