Bakandamiya

Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in the Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem.

“Saddiq Dzukogi’s first book was one of my favorite debuts in quite some time, so I was wondering what might come next. Bakandamiya does not disappoint—this work is incredible in how it blends epic breath and lyric impulse, a timeless meditation . . . that knows ‘night is the truce between the battles of spirits.’ A conversation with sources as various as the Qur’an and Dante, Eliot and Gibran, here is a choral gathering of the tribes that’s unafraid to reach for the truth. . . . This is a voice worth listening to.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

• AcknowledgementsBook OneBa ya ji, daBook TwoHaskeBook ThreeBakandamiya-