{"product_id":"leaked-footages-paperback-softback-9781496240132","title":"Leaked Footages (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496240132","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLeaked Footages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAbu Bakr Sadiq (Author), Kwame Dawes (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496240132\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e102 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.166 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s \u003ci\u003eLeaked Footages\u003c\/i\u003e we encounter a speaker addressing us from a richly imagined future while haunted by the past. The result is an interrogation of the many ways the world can end, the many scales of that apocalypse. These poems haunt me and teach me. Here is a poet I will follow into every future.”-Safia Elhillo, author of \u003ci\u003eGirls That Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s \u003ci\u003eLeaked Footages\u003c\/i\u003e we enter into a world concerned with untangling the ontological realities of our present-day. Populated with cyborgs and a speaker navigating the violence of their world, there is a deep yearning and precision in the language of these poems aimed at comprehending how we have come to engage one another. The poems here ask what it means to be a person, a Nigerian, a Muslim, in the face of a world so deeply adjudicated by conflict and the myriad lenses of technology. Mediated by the nuances of received narratives, intersecting histories, and family lineages, this book is at once deeply rooted and otherworldly, an oscillation between a kind of distant witnessing, and a meticulously intimate living. Each poem in this collection feels like an arrival!”-Matthew Shenoda, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Earth: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eLeaked Footages\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword by Kwame Dawes\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introducing Bhabi to the Cyborg\u003cbr\u003e wormhole\u003cbr\u003e road map\u003cbr\u003e maqtoob\u003cbr\u003e Explaining Bot Fights to Bhabi\u003cbr\u003e Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg in an idps Camp\u003cbr\u003e flight theory\u003cbr\u003e crane shot\u003cbr\u003e After Bhabi Dreams of a City Filled with Light\u003cbr\u003e Ars Poetica with a Broken Shahada\u003cbr\u003e Report from an Inkblot Test Reveals\u003cbr\u003e displacement theory\u003cbr\u003e The bbc Explains the Country’\u003cbr\u003es Challenges to the Cyborg in Sixty Seconds\u003cbr\u003e rhubarb shot\u003cbr\u003e A Patrol Officer wants to know\u003cbr\u003e in conversation with bhabi\u003cbr\u003e my god swears \/ by the fig, by the olive, by the brightest star, by the prophet who penned no ghazal\u003cbr\u003e Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at a Shooting Practice\u003cbr\u003e drainage\u003cbr\u003e apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e mutilation theory\u003cbr\u003e video village\u003cbr\u003e 6pm at AbdulHameed’\u003cbr\u003es Barbershop\u003cbr\u003e Everything I’\u003cbr\u003eve Lost Returns to me as Wind\u003cbr\u003e Second Encounter with Bhabi in a Dream\u003cbr\u003e reading bhabi’\u003cbr\u003es diary\u003cbr\u003e driving downtown\u003cbr\u003e Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg Leading a Protest in Lagos\u003cbr\u003e News Reports Confirm the Cyborg is Missing\u003cbr\u003e The Cyborg asks for my Excuses\u003cbr\u003e In Defense of Burnt Cities\u003cbr\u003e Leaked Footage of the Cyborg in an Interrogation Room\u003cbr\u003e While a Newly-Elected President is being Sworn-in\u003cbr\u003e reaching an endpoint\u003cbr\u003e After a Conversation about Janazah with Bhabi in a Dream\u003cbr\u003e Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at the U.S. Embassy\u003cbr\u003e survivor’\u003cbr\u003eS gift\u003cbr\u003e estrangement theory\u003cbr\u003e translation\u003cbr\u003e re-shoots\u003cbr\u003e Midnight in Maiduguri\u003cbr\u003e rebirth\u003cbr\u003e dronecode\u003cbr\u003e cyborg’\u003cbr\u003es diary\u003cbr\u003e post massacre psych evaluation\u003cbr\u003e director’\u003cbr\u003eS cut: Recovered Footages from the Cyborg’\u003cbr\u003es Disk Drive\u003cbr\u003e recaptcha asks the Cyborg to Confirm he's not a Robot\u003cbr\u003e After Escaping Fire\u003cbr\u003e homecoming\u003cbr\u003e evensong\u003cbr\u003e cast (In Order of Disappearance)\u003cbr\u003e Notes and Source Acknowledgements\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600287494424,"sku":"9781496240132","price":13.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/leaked-footages-paperback-softback-9781496240132","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}