{"product_id":"a-bird-on-the-waiting-mohsen-hosseinkhani-9781965784341","title":"A Bird on the Waiting Branch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLove poetry written with the toolbox of necessity that touches grief \u003c\/strong\u003eand war and loss, it may remind one at times of Neruda's youthful \"Twenty-One Love Poems and a Song of Despair.\"\u003c\/p\u003eHosseinkhani's \u003cstrong\u003eA Bird on the Waiting Branch\u003c\/strong\u003e is a book of thresholds, between lovers and distances, tenderness and terror, the private ache of longing and the public wound of war. In Tahere Forsat Safaei's clear-eyed translation, these poems move with a grave music, their melancholy sharpened into images you won't easily shake: a dried river under a bridge, a child with a snapped balloon string, an angel whose wings are glass. Threaded through this longing is \u003cstrong\u003ea stark meditation on mortality.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the book's heart is the address to a missing \"you,\" a second person that magnetizes the speaker's world. \u003cstrong\u003eHosseinkhani is at his most luminous \u003c\/strong\u003ewhen love is treated \u003cstrong\u003enot as ornament but as physics: \"a strong magnet\" that can find the needle in a haystack\u003c\/strong\u003e; \"the promise of God to Noah\" against the flood of time. The distance is so absolute that the book risks myth, \"Wherever you have gone \/ Is the farthest place of the world\" yet the feeling lands because the metaphors keep rooting themselves in the tactile. The mouth that cannot say a name feels as useless as a bridge without water beneath it; the body becomes a field of practical objects failing at their purposes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders drawn to lyric meditation, to \u003cstrong\u003epoetry\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ethat fuses the domestic with the geopolitical, \u003c\/strong\u003e will find a fierce companion here. It shows how love and fear, grief and endurance, are not opposites but neighbors. Open it for the images; stay for the moral steadiness; return for the \u003cstrong\u003elines that echo long after the page is closed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mohsen Hosseinkhani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1965784348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781965784341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierian Springs Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.26d","brand":"Mohsen Hosseinkhani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997925486847,"sku":"9781965784341","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-bird-on-the-waiting-mohsen-hosseinkhani-9781965784341","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}