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Till You Recognize Me - Poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh
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A powerful debut collection exploring love, liberty, and the human spirit
This stirring collection of poetry from Mansour Noorbakhsh resonates with raw emotion and profound insight. With each verse, readers are drawn into a world where language becomes a conduit for understanding, compassion, and the universal pursuit of love.
Till You Recognize Me heralds Noorbakhsh as a literary force to be reckoned with â a voice that reverberates across generations and continents. Through vivid imagery and evocative metaphors, Noorbakhsh navigates the complexities of human existence while encouraging readers to transcend cultural, religious, and political divides and connect on a human level.
âPraise for Till You Recognize Meâ
âIranian poet Mansour Noorbakhsh, in his defence of liberty and tolerance, in these earnest lyrics, is as unassailable as a dancing target. His verses field instigations and elegies, but always a greed for rebirth in a free space: Perhaps Canada today, but defiantly Iran tomorrow, wherever âtrees live like life itself and die like falling in love / they donât have a tomb, their tombs are new trees.ââ
â George Elliott Clarke, formerly Poet Laureate of Toronto and Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, playwright, scholar, and activist
âMansour Noorbakhsh is a generational voice ... his verse carries readers to places drenched in love and blood.â
â Darcie Friesen Hossack, Commonwealth Prize-Shortlisted author of Stillwater and Managing Editor of WordCity Literary JournalÂ
"The poems in Mansour Noorbakhshâs collection, Till You Recognize Me, are striking in their insights and the unexpected metaphors he uses. Some examples: âdolphins tango togetherâ; âThe ignored âmeâ dribbles out as a poem from a melting icebergâ; âThe toaster screamed, and the toast ejectedâ; ânothing is more bloodthirsty than loveâ; âboiling a poem while brewing a coffeeâ; âLike a cracked skin pomegranate. Sadness is nothing but a heart empty of a bright imagination.â âPoem is the other name of silence.â Then there is the potent closing line of the title poem, Till You Recognize Me, namely, âYour silence frightens me.â
âSylvia Petter, author and founder of the Geneva Writers' Group
MANSOUR NOORBAKHSH writes poems and stories in both English and Farsi and has published books, poems, and articles in both languages. His poems have been translated into Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovenian, and Chinese. He also presents The Contemporary Canadian Poets on a weekly Persian radio program. He is an electrical engineer and lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.
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Subject: Poetry
Pub Date: December 2024
Available at your local bookseller or order from Mosaic Press, IPG(US) Eurospan/IPG (UK/EU), Manda Group(Canada)
5.5 x 8.5 inches
68 pages