Amin Mansouri's books
My books are fragments of notes collected over the years of my life.If you ask me what I have written, I may not remember clearly—only in fragments.But when I return to them, page by page, I begin to remember again: the moments, the hours, and the states of mind in which each page was written or drawn.
HalaBoroBala
2021–2023
During my military service, I once saw a guard room where a soldier had filled the walls with small handwritten “toasts”—different ways of saying cheers while drinking.That image stayed with me.I decided to write a book made of many kinds of “cheers” one can say throughout life.
Pulp Sonnets
2015
by Tony Barnstone, illustrated by Amin Mansouri
Improvising on the tropes of classic pulp fiction, including genres like crime noir, horror, sci-fi, superhero, espionage, and vigilante, Tony Barnstone’s audacious new poems are counterpointed by the mischievous (and blood-splattered) ink drawings of Iranian artist Amin Mansouri. At times reinventing the sonnet tradition, Barnstone’s linked sequences evoke serial-format comics and cinema, as each series breaks into discrete frames propelled by action. The ancient gods and epics have been high-jacked by animations and video games, but pulp remains unconquerable — ghastly, shameless, outrageous — and fun!
ManeBadeDoostdashtani
2014
Mane Badedostdashtani is a book meant to be read without judgment.It should be approached page by page, as something to wander through rather than analyze.Perhaps within its fragments, one might find traces of their own life.
Eshgh o Lajan
2008
Love and Mud is a poetic exploration of love seen from an unconventional and non-idealized perspective.It reflects love not as purity or romance alone, but as something layered, grounded, and imperfect.
Daf o Divane
2009
Throughout my life, love has been my central concern.But Dafo Divane is a book I have lived more than I have written—it exists as an experience rather than a text.
To
2012
This book is nothing different.It is something like me, something like you.I dedicate this book to Farid.
The Memories of my alzheimer’s
2013
The Memories of My Alzheimers was written in 2013, on a day when I wished to forget my entire life and begin again from zero.It came from a moment of intentional forgetting—a desire to reset memory and reconstruct identity from the beginning.
Nucleice rooh
2010
NucleiceRooh was written and drawn as an attempt to find another path.At the time, I told myself that this could not be all there is to the world.
Daftare Mano Atre versace to
2010
In My Notebook and Your Versace Perfume, I tried to describe what happens after separation from a lover—not as it is written in books, but as it truly is.
Goshtasp
2008
Goshtasp was written in my earlier years as a personal narrative.It is a story that feels, to me, almost unbelievable—existing somewhere between memory, imagination, and myth.
The Unpublished Memoirs of Romeo
2020
In The Unpublished Memoirs of Romeo, I divided love into five stages.I selected poems about love and placed each one within its corresponding stage.The aim was for the reader to experience love directly, and feel it in its purest form.
