Leaked Footages
eBook - ePub

Leaked Footages

  1. 82 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Leaked Footages

About this book

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing often manifested in contemporary poets such as Garous Abdolmalekian and Ilya Kaminsky, but they extend that tradition by the medium through which they witness: the technical and the technological. Here, the camera, the closed-circuit TV, cinematographic techniques, and the cyborg are trusted for truth telling. Reality is represented in footage seen through the eyes of multifaceted speakers.

In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s exploration of northern Nigeria in speculative poetry, the lyrical meets the chronicle. In this fusion of Afrofuturism with experimental poetic techniques, the reader witnesses a country ravaged by terrorism and the consequences of war, as well as the effects of these on those who survive. While the tone is grave with concern and conscience, the poems do not take the easy route of sentiment. Instead, attention is paid to structure—from the erasure poems that are informed by the theme of disappearance to the contrapuntal poems that are influenced by the testaments of leaving.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introducing Bhabi to the Cyborg
  10. wormhole
  11. road map
  12. maqtoob
  13. Explaining Bot Fights to Bhabi
  14. Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg in an idps Camp
  15. flight theory
  16. crane shot
  17. After Bhabi Dreams of a City Filled with Light
  18. Ars Poetica with a Broken Shahada
  19. Report from an Inkblot Test Reveals
  20. displacement theory
  21. The bbc Explains the Country’s Challenges to the Cyborg in Sixty Seconds
  22. rhubarb shot
  23. A Patrol Officer wants to Know
  24. in conversation with bhabi
  25. my god swears / by the fig, by the olive, by the brightest star, by the prophet who penned no ghazal
  26. Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at a Shooting Practice
  27. drainage
  28. apocalypse
  29. mutilation theory
  30. video village
  31. 6pm at AbdulHameed’s Barbershop
  32. Everything I’ve Lost Returns to Me as Wind
  33. Second Encounter with Bhabi in a Dream
  34. reading bhabi’s diary
  35. driving downtown
  36. Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg Leading a Protest in Lagos
  37. News Reports Confirm the Cyborg is Missing
  38. The Cyborg asks for My Excuses
  39. In Defense of Burnt Cities
  40. Leaked Footage of the Cyborg in an Interrogation Room
  41. While a Newly Elected President Is being Sworn In
  42. reaching an endpoint
  43. After a Conversation about Janazah with Bhabi in a Dream
  44. Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at the U.S. Embassy
  45. survivor’S gift
  46. estrangement theory
  47. translation
  48. re-shoots
  49. Midnight in Maiduguri
  50. rebirth
  51. dronecode
  52. cyborg’s diary
  53. post massacre psych evaluation
  54. director’S cut: Recovered Footages from the Cyborg’s Disk Drive
  55. recaptcha Asks the Cyborg to Confirm He’s Not a Robot
  56. After Escaping Fire
  57. homecoming
  58. evensong
  59. cast (In Order of Disappearance)
  60. Notes and Source Acknowledgements
  61. About Abu Bakr Sadiq
  62. Series List