Millard Lowe

On the Waves of Lost Memories Selected Poems Millard Lowe

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."