In Clamour for Handful of Rice, Sonnet Mondal’s poems are born out of hunger, a hunger for peace, a hunger for documentation, and a hunger that calls back our ghosts. It is a book of full-bodied poems that burn into your consciousness and conscience, and thus stand out against the common run of intellectual, technical poems. Elegant and clear-sighted, aphoristic and incisive, it is a book driven by distinct and memorable imagery.