Fatherhood, Memory, and Grief: An Interview with Saddiq Dzukogi – PRISM international
—a parent’s pain— . To read your collection is to visit, as you put it, “where pain lives.” In “Scarf,” the speaker writes, “ He wishes grief were a cloth he could take off.” Why is poetry the most appropriate means for you to contemplate grief? Saddiq Dzukogi: Thank you so much for your generous words about the collection. I find it immensely difficult to talk about the book, but I guess I am at that stage where it becomes necessary since the book’s release date is around the corner. Poetry has always been a tool for me to make sense of my body and the various emo...
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