Sundress Publications announces the release of Abdulrazaq Salihu’s chapbook, Quantum Entanglements with Notes on Loss. This collection is a haunting and heart-aching collection of poems exploring the brutal ache of loss and grief.
The horrors of violence result in the passing of the speaker’s father and the family must now deal with the aftermath and the mourning that comes with it, but how does one grieve? How does one get through the ache of losing someone so dear to them? Collecting science, Greek mythology, and gut-wrenching imagery of the silence that grief brings, Salihu lays startlingly bare the sorrow, regret, and anger that spills out of such loss. Yet, interwoven within these poems is the heartbreaking beauty of remembering—of honoring the lives of loved ones, of keeping their memories alive, because to grieve is to have loved deeply and thoroughly.
Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, winner of the American Literary Review award, says of this collection, “This book is filled with poems that reach within the reader, and from those innermost spaces, spill their familiarity, their relatability on the pages. Abdulrazaq writes at the same time like a timeless sage and a new-age superstar.”
Abdulrazaq Salihu, TPC I, is a Nigerian poet and member of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. He won the Splendor of Dawn poetry contest, BPKW poetry contest, Poetry Archive poetry contest, Masks literary magazine poetry award, Nigerian prize for teen authors (poetry), Hilltop creative writing award, and others. He has received fellowships and residencies from Imodeye Writers Enclave writers residency, SPRINg and elsewhere. His work is published/forthcoming in Uncanny, Bacopa, Consequence, South Florida poetry, Eunoia review, strange horizons, Unstamatic, Bracken, Poetry Quarter(ly), Rogue, B*k, Jupiter review, black moon magazine, Angime, Grub Street Mag and elsewhere. He tweets @Arazaqsalihu, and his Instagram is @Abdulrazaq._salihu. He’s the author of Constellations (polar sphere, 2022) and hiccups (polar sphere, 2022).
