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Forget It is a collection of poetry and prose poetry about the experience of writing and being a writer. Click Here to download a PDF, listen to an audio version or watch the book's video.  Comment from - Seun Lari-Williams (Author, Garri for Breakfast) Oyindamola has done an amazing job at being the writer's writer. She exposes readers to the secrets from the backend of the writing experience in a way that only an experienced hand can. She praises writing and the written word in such an elegant way that carries both readers and writers along. Anyone who appreciates art in whatever forms it comes, would enjoy this wonderful work. The title, Forget It, by itself is curious. No one invests in a book project - a collection of great thoughts such as these - only to turn around and use Forget It, is a title. I can't forget that. That was my first impression. It made me say, who is this?! 10 Favorite Quotes from Forget ItWriting doesn’t need a voice or crave to be the voice of and for anything. It is ears and medium. It is a language that heard me when I couldn’t speak. It filled my lungs when I forgot to breathe. It is a language of life and existence. Sometimes in the lack of faith, the loss of belief, the death of religion, or fogginess of sight, it feels like someone higher than us started a story and forgot to write an ending to it. Somewhere along me knowing, I could be the mouthpiece of God, scribe to someone’s legacy or enchant someone’s fate into being or even asking, what if God ran out of destinies to give and assigned someone my words to live? – Writing became a purposeful burden. Every day has a bad habit of living in me without permission, and today beats my heart into an attempt of healing. Healing begins with a remembrance service, two lovers – day and night, kissing a shadow of insomnia and mourning the loss of time in me; life continues, but existence doesn’t always. I will write it. I will love it. I will think this is what can finally break the world. I will believe this is what can finally make the world. I will think this will change someone’s life. I will believe the world needs to read this. I will think, “this-is-it.” Every time, I will think this-is-it. Here you are, undoing your tongue and the sewing of your lips | in this misfit you decolonize language and become the great, great-grandchild of utter | the child of God’s creation | ...and how writing can strip the heavens and hell built up in metaphors and silence; This is how I tame life with my fingertips and touch the face of God with my mouth and bend everything that should have broken me and undo myself, and remake myself to an earthly perfection, and glorify myself that I will be a perfect aroma rubbing on the skin of an unrisen Christ. We are no longer looking for baptism in the waters where our ancestors drowned. We are no longer looking for history by pens our fathers never held. Writing is an opportunity to negotiate yourself out of your misery even when you don’t have what your suffering wants to get out of you. Click Here to download a PDF, listen to an audio version or watch the book's video. Authors Bio:
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