Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "In Abu Bakr Sadiq's Leaked Footages 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 Girls That Never Die