Sufi Talismans

About this book

Sahar Hasab Allah Abd treats writing as a cocoon: the body may remain enclosed, but the pen seeks a way into freedom. Her prose poems and long lyrical sequences combine romantic feeling, Sufi sensibility, contemporary language, and reflections on the act of making poetry. Rather than promise a lost lover, the collection asks readers to enlarge their inner worlds and encounter language as revival, pleasure, and a spiritual form of attention.