The Conference of the Birds CRUEL/CRUEL

The Conference of the Birds CRUEL/CRUELAttar, translation Sholeh Wolp Composed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the

Originally published in 1973 by poet and translator David Rosenberg in The Ant's Forefoot chapbook series

Janani Ambikapathy has written a short review of the book for Poetry Foundation

Johannes Goransson)

Ex Daemon is de apocriefe neerslag van het onwettig verhoor van de enige nog levende getuige van De Situatie

" At home in countless poetic forms

In her review of the French edition

duister goederentransport en ongeduldig kapitaal worden de grenzen van een genadeloze kill zone uitgestippeld

Care is messed up

and dwarf stars

and the possibilities of language itself

songs and felt silences

Not strict translation