Karmic Chanting (PB)

“Mystical and cosmic, the poems in Sonnet Mondal’s Karmic Chanting hover between worlds the way nostalgia lingers in the imagination. Mondal’s verse is untethered from the constraints of narrative, fully aware that ‘[s]omething beyond my convictions/is awaiting to undress itself’.” Brian Turner

“In Sonnet Mondal’s poems the beauty of intricate lyric movements, never far from the world of natural forms, draws the reader into the zone of inwardness. Difficult abstractions are fleshed with feeling, and we face childhood, feel the pulse of desire, and the encircling presence of mortal ruin.” Meena Alexander