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    Hear Me Out
    Hear Me Out
    Hear Me Out
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    Hear Me Out

    By Manolis

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    Tzoutzi Mantzourani was born in Athens – Greece, in 1959. She studied French Literature and Language at Pepperdine University Malibu, CA. USA, and worked as a journalist in several Greek newspapers and magazines until 2009. She has published up three poem collections and a book of short stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibros Libertad Publishing
    Release dateSep 13, 2015
    ISBN9781311383020
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    Manolis

    Manolis (Emmanuel Aligizakis) is a Cretan-Canadian poet and author. He’s the most prolific writer-poet of the Greek diaspora. At the age of eleven he transcribed the nearly 500 year old romantic poem Erotokritos, now released in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies and made available for collectors of such rare books at 5,000 dollars Canadian: the most expensive book of its kind to this day. He was recently appointed an honorary instructor and fellow of the International Arts Academy, and awarded a Master’s for the Arts in Literature. He is recognized for his ability to convey images and thoughts in a rich and evocative way that tugs at something deep within the reader. Born in the village of Kolibari on the island of Crete in 1947, he moved with his family at a young age to Thessaloniki and then to Athens, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences from the Panteion University of Athens. After graduation, he served in the armed forces for two years and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, where he worked as an iron worker, train labourer, taxi driver, and stock broker, and studied English Literature at Simon Fraser University. He has written three novels and numerous collections of poetry, which are steadily being released as published works. His articles, poems and short stories in both Greek and English have appeared in various magazines and newspapers in Canada, United States, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Australia, Jordan, Serbia and Greece. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Romanian, Swedish, German, Hungarian, Ukrainian, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Serbian, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, languages and has been published in book form or in magazines in various countries. He now lives in White Rock, where he spends his time writing, gardening, traveling, and heading Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company which he founded in 2006 with the mission of publishing literary books. His translation book “George Seferis-Collected Poems” was shortlisted for the Greek National Literary Awards the highest literary recognition of Greece. In September 2017 he was awarded the First Poetry Prize of the Mihai Eminescu International Poetry Festival, in Craiova, Romania.

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      Hear Me Out - Manolis

      Table Of Contents

      Copyright

      1. Starting From the End

      2. Morning Wake Up

      3. On the Kitchen Counter

      4. I Care For You

      5. I Just Call to Say ‘I Love You’

      6. I Want You ‘Now’

      7. Revenge of the Overcoat

      8. Marks On Paper

      9. Only Love Heals a Lost Love

      10. T-Shirt

      11. 5 of the 9 ½ Weeks

      12. Weekend In London

      13. Questionable Love

      14. One More Chance

      15. Que C’est Triste Venise

      16. Bouquet of Flowers

      17. You Endure, I Endure

      18. Tears

      19. Christmas Blues

      20. Old Wounds

      21. Anniversary

      22. Salome

      23. Room For the Night

      24. Before the Fall of Constantinople

      25. Bosporos In Me

      26. When I Fall In Love

      27. Start All Over Aggain

      28. My Own Little Prince

      29. After Many Years

      30. Fleece Bed-Sheets

      31. Pandora’s Box

      32. I’m a Night Animal

      33. Caterwauling

      34. Dawn In Las Vegas

      35. Night Before Fullmoon

      36. Blue Moon (31-12-2010)

      37. All Cities are the Same at Dawn

      38. What You Loved

      39. And Now?

      40. The Road To Hell

      41. At Both Edges

      42. Somewhere Out There

      43. Pain On Pain

      44. Are You Asleep?

      45. Hammock

      46. Pink

      47. Shut Out the Perseids

      48. Through a Door Crack

      49. The Lost 1%

      50. Pute De Vie

      51. A Star For the Night

      52. Honeysuckle and Jasmine

      53. A Slice of Moon With Watermelon Fragrance

      54. One Moment Only

      55. Rough Seas

      56. La Complicite Des Vieux Amants

      57. Cyber Love

      58. Happy Birthday

      59. An Empty Pack of Cigarettes

      60. Wind In My Sails

      61. A New Moon

      62. There

      63. In the Middle of the Road

      64. No Title

      65. Seventeen Steps

      66. Secret Messages

      67. Love Goes Through the Stomach

      68. Who of All the Others

      69. Warm Bed-Sheets

      Tzoutzi Mantzourani

      Biography

      Manolis

      Biography

      Copyright

      Copyright 2015 by Libros Libertad Publishing Ltd.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other-wise, without the written prior permission of the publisher.

      First published by: Libros Libertad Publishing Ltd 2244 154A Street Surrey, BC Canada V4A 5S9 (604) 838-8796 Fax (604) 536-6819

      www.libroslibertad.ca

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Mantzourani, Tzoutzi, 1959- [Me akous?. English]

      Hear me out / Tzoutzi Mantzourani ; Manolis Aligizakis, translator.

      Includes index.

      Translation of: Me akous?

      ISBN 978-1-926763-40-8 (paperback)

      I. Manolis, 1947-, translator II. Title. III. Title: Me akous?. English.

      PA5638.23.A68M4313 2015 889.3’4 C2015-904132-5

      Cover Design by Iryna Spica Typeset in Baskerville at SpicaBookDesign

      E-book formatting by; SpicaBookDesign www.spicabookdesign.com

      1. Starting From the End

      My love,

      Once again I stayed awake all night thinking of you.

      I cried that you weren’t next to me in bed then I got angry with you, with me with the others as if it was their fault for our situation. That we took separate ways each on their own or with separate others; that we finally couldn’t manage it.

      I don’t believe it. I refuse to accept it.

      Although from another point of view it was I who drove things that way, I who took the final decision, I who asked you to leave.

      And now I spend my night before the window searching the street with my eyes waiting to see you pass in front of the house, come inside ring the bell and tell me you can’t live without me and I desperately fall in your arms.

      Three months have already gone since we split up I’ve started to get used to it.

      Perhaps I like my life without you.

      I see my girlfriends, go out with them, I flirt with men.

      I’m no longer afraid that something may make you angry and you’ll argue with me or it will result in a fight; the long faces, the nagging, the stupid misery of our common life. I can’t even endure the thought that we may get into that again.

      You can’t imagine how I’ve missed you the way I’ve built you in my mind: tender, smiling, always joyous, like when I met you. Back then when you were always in a hurry to leave your office and come to me, when you couldn’t be without me. Back then when you would whisper in my ear and sing with your sweet hoarse voice. Back then…

      How long did it last? Two three months? I no longer remember.

      But only this I remember of you. The rest I’ve erased from my memory.

      I have only kept this picture of us where only our figures appear like shadows on the wall.

      We hug each other no one can tell whether we are happy or not. This way, I like to think we were crazy in love in a moment of absolute happiness.

      Two shadows on the wall. Nothing can take them apart misery can’t touch them.

      You are my last thought before I go to sleep at night and my first one when I get up in the morning. The rest of the day I simply think of you.

      Then I realize what has happened to us.

      Now that we’re not together I can finally love you with no stress.

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