On the Waves of Lost Memories Selected Poems

<p>Okot P’Bitek writing in Africa’s Cultural Revolution Macmillian Books for Africa Nairobi 1973 reminds us that “writing like painting and sculpting is a mere tool for expressing ideas. As the painter uses brush color and a surface (. . . canvas the walls of St. Peter’s Basilica . . . the walls of a cave) and the sculptor uses a chisel and a piece of wood or stone to produce shapes and figures the poet uses words for expressing his feelings. The voice of the [writer] and the pen and paper are mere midwives of a pregnant mind.”</p>