Leaked Footages / Abu Bakr Sadiq and Kwame Dawes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadiq, Abu Bakr, author.

Dawes, Kwame, author.

Series:

African poetry book series.

African Poetry Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry.

Nigeria--Poetry.

Nigeria.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subject matters, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing, but they extend that tradition by the medium through which they witness: the technical and the technological.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introducing Bhabi to the Cyborg

WORMHOLE

ROAD MAP

MAQTOOB

Explaining Bot Fights to Bhabi

Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg in an IDPS Camp

FLIGHT THEORY

CRANE SHOT

After Bhabi Dreams of a City Filled with Light

Ars Poetica with a Broken Shahada

Report from an Inkblot Test Reveals

DISPLACEMENT THEORY

The BBC Explains the Country's Challenges to the Cyborg in Sixty Seconds

RHUBARB SHOT

A Patrol Officer Wants to Know

IN CONVERSATION WITH BHABI

my god swears / by the fig, by the olive, by the brightest star, by the prophet who penned no ghazal

Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at a Shooting Practice

drainAGE

APOCALYPSE

MUTILATION THEORY

VIDEO VILLAGE

6pm at AbdulHameed's Barbershop

Everything I've Lost Returns to Me as Wind

Second Encounter with Bhabi in a Dream

READING BHABI'S DIARY

DRIVING DOWNTOWN

Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg Leading a Protest in Lagos

News Reports Confirm the Cyborg is Missing

The Cyborg Asks for My Excuses

In Defense of Burnt Cities

Leaked Footage of the Cyborg in an Interrogation Room

While a Newly Elected President Is Being Sworn In

REACHING AN ENDPOINT

After a Conversation about Janazah with Bhabi in a Dream

Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at the U.S. Embassy

SURVIVOR'S GIFT

ESTRANGEMENT THEORY

TRANSLATION

RE-SHOOTS

Midnight in Maiduguri

REBIRTH

DRONECODE

CYBORG'S DIARY

POST -MASSACRE PSYCH EVALUATION

DIRECTOR'S CUT: Recovered Footages from the Cyborg's Disk Drive

reCAPTCHA Asks the Cyborg to Confirm He's Not a Robot

After Escaping Fire

HOMECOMING

EVENSONG

CAST (In Order of Disappearance)

Notes and Source Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

ISBN:

9781496242150

1496242157

9781496242143

1496242149