FRAGILE LIGHT

Fragile Light is a weighty honest and vulnerable chapbook that explores the tension between identity, faith, and the pressure of expectation. Hannatu Sunusi Yakubu assembles patient ghazals and clear free verse, chronicling the inner turmoil of pushing against the mold that others have drawn, and learning to carve one's own face. Moving through poems of familial history, quiet grief ("Dear Pain, My Oldest Lover"), and the determined struggle to belong to oneself, this collection is an embodiment of endurance. It is an urgent invitation to hold onto the light that is often fragile, reminding us that survival itself is a form of faith.