Gopal Lahiri reviews Evening with a Sufi by Afsar Mohammad in Kitaab.

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Here is a poet who writes in the node between the most personal moment and the undeniably universal one. There is a fierceness, a beauty, a joyful spirit in his work and he creates pieces of engaging resistance and poignant accuracy. Clarity and candidness are his watchwords, his voice is not always one of grandeur or pomposity. The poet summons such feelings in his poems even as they resist, contain, and try not to succumb to them. That makes it all the more moving.

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Read the full review here. 

https://kitaab.org/2023/02/02/book-review-evening-with-a-sufi-translated-from-telugu-by-afsar-mohammad-and-shamala-gallagher/