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The Conference of the Birds

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          Farid Uddin Attar, Shoaled Wolpé

          Paperback

          9780393355543

           

          Attar is best known for his epic poem The Conference of the Birds, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. The poem recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf, in search of the mysterious Simurgh, their king. Attar’s beguiling anecdotes and humour intermingle the sublime with the mundane, the spiritual with the worldly, and the religious with the metaphysical. Reflecting the entire evolution of Sufi mystic tradition, Attar’s poem models the soul’s escape from the mind’s rational embrace.

           

          Sholeh Wolpé re-creates the beauty of the original Persian in contemporary English verse and poetic prose.