The Conference of the Birds Laura Jaramillo Assembled from found material such

Assembled from found material such as declassified documents

The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxins Here

the cogito and the empirical

for him for the first time

Poets have no words ‘of their very own

The Conference of the Birds Laura Jaramillo Assembled from found material suchAttar, 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