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The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry

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The poet moves through elegy

volgens de jury van de Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs

Pavel Khazanov

figurae Home Radio The Conference of the BirdsDavid Brazil Whats history? Dante Aligheri ensconced Joachim of Fiore, di spirito profetico dotato, in the heaven of the wise (Paradiso XII) as testament to the earlier writers visionary exegesis of Johns Apocalypse, the scriptures last book, from which the Calabrian abbot exegeted a pictorial history of the worlds successive stages, culminating in the age of the Holy Spirit. David Brazils Figurae collects the first eight fascicles of a projected