{"product_id":"leaked-footages-9781496240132","title":"Leaked Footages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 wi","brand":"U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409247412567,"sku":"9781496240132","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496240132.jpg?v=1730506135","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leaked-footages-9781496240132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}