Free Our Thoughts Are Free: Poems And Prose On Imprisonment And Exile Depicted By Tan Jing Quee Provided As EPub

good. It took a while to get into the book, mainly because some of the poetry was not very good, but then the standard improved and I found myself able to access something of this world.
The book contains poems from people who have been detained without trial under Singapore's internal security act, The mini biographies for each poet, together with the poems, open a small window on a rather darker side of Singapore and those who have survived it.
A valiant but failed attempt in my humble opinion,
Need for a subeditor, organisation of the book, choice of the poets, choice of the poems, etc,
But a brave attempt all in all, Just the need to get the sentiment out of the way to make a good book/collection, Nietzsches 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 isnt 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, This collection has the potential to do that: to surprise us with our own empathy, and to move and fortify us with the conviction of our essential freedom within circumstances few of us will experience at first hand.

Lee Tzu Pheng,