he [Niran Okewole] added that many good American writers have had to leave America or create a fictitious world. [Austyn] Njoku begged to differ, asking, "Does a writer have to experience imprisonment or be in some form of deprivation before he is a good writer?" [Jumoke] Verissimo explained her position on the issue with the Christian belief that one receives Holy Spirit when totally broken. "There's that point of need that you get to, when you're totally broken, that you can receive the Holy Spirit," she explained, suggesting that the poet's experience during incarceration was responsible for his ability to write such poems of such depth and feeling.from Next: Creating Hope for Liu Xiaobo
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