The Conference of the Birds J.D. Salinger is living a quiet life

is living a quiet life in the beach town

selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize

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The Conference of the Birds J.D. Salinger is living a quiet lifeComposed 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 Simorgh bird. On hearing that to