When in the soul the seas are agitated

"Love is the recurring theme of this collection, but the author avoids déjà vu at every turn. It is a sensual and voluptuous love. The woman is considered as the "land of rebirth". Despite love, loneliness does not leave the poet of exile. Kamanda's stylistic range is extensive. His lyricism has expanded from book to book from "Chants de brumes" (1986) to "L'étreinte des mots" (1995). As his experience of people and the world grows, his breath becomes more powerful. Kamanda is in search of similarities, of identification with beings and things. He has a porous soul. He is wind, thunder, volcano. That is why his poetry is marked by a certain verbal ardor in the form of apostrophes, invocations, incantations. Poetry is the true historiography of the interior life. Let us not see in it only romantic effusion. History is a choice. Kamanda saw in poetry: the instrument of the conquest of the world. This is the price of his work." Jean Baptiste Tati Loutard