“In her paper “Poetry, Transformation, and the Column of Tears” Jane Hirshfield designates the poetry of Bertolt Brecht as our antidote to any propagandistic “language that steers, hardens, and stupefies” (Hirshfield 243). To wit: Brecht’s poetic may well lead onto sharper-minded freedoms and, for those of us who labor creatively, texts such as “To Those Born Later” (An die Nachgeborenen) not only resonate but indeed may well retune. Not only does the German poet show how “silence is no option” (Maguire), Brecht enshrines a speaking position that utters beyond the interpellations of thunderously toxic political storms.”

via KR Online