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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 emotions that it experiences and endures. I fall back to poetry each time there is something about the world or the self I do not understand. Not that it always arms me with understanding, but at least it starts the journey. When I started writing the poems, it was a way to get rage out of my veins. I wrote because crying wasn’t enough, my body wanted to bleed, I wanted to see my blood and the wo

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