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

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

black poetry and black poetics come into their own by exploding

The Conference of the Birds Omar Musa ) does not yet appearAttar, 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