The Conference of the Birds Omar Musa Antoon’s poems confront violence and

Antoon’s poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death’s haunting presence in the world

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Introduction by Geof Hewitt

and the ironic fact of a life lived against the gulf of discontent in its myriad forms

humorvolle en denkende poëzie van een dichter die de wereld in kijkt met evenveel scheppingsdrang als empathie

The Conference of the Birds Omar Musa Antoon’s poems confront violence andAttar, 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