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 — 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.

⭐Praise for Till You Recognize Me⭐

“Iranian 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 ‘trees live like life itself and die like falling in love / they don’t have a tomb, their tombs are new trees.’”

— George Elliott Clarke, formerly Poet Laureate of Toronto and Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, playwright, scholar, and activist

“Mansour Noorbakhsh is a generational voice ... his verse carries readers to places drenched in love and blood.”

— Darcie Friesen Hossack, Commonwealth Prize-Shortlisted author of Stillwater and Managing Editor of WordCity Literary Journal 

"The poems in Mansour Noorbakhsh’s collection, Till You Recognize Me, are striking in their insights and the unexpected metaphors he uses. Some examples: “dolphins tango together”; “The ignored ’me’ dribbles out as a poem from a melting iceberg”; ”The toaster screamed, and the toast ejected”; “nothing is more bloodthirsty than love”; “boiling a poem while brewing a coffee”; “Like a cracked skin pomegranate. Sadness is nothing but a heart empty of a bright imagination.” “Poem is the other name of silence.” Then there is the potent closing line of the title poem, Till You Recognize Me, namely, “Your silence frightens me.”

—Sylvia 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.

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