Monday, November 30, 2009

Poverty, A Poem by Fred Taban

. . . you don't have a heart but you are cruel. . . . 
~ Fred Taban

Fred Taban, a theology professor at Episcopal Church Sudan Seminary, in south Sudan, and a refugee for most of his life, narrates his poem "Poverty".

His words require no further elaboration.


Poverty, poem by Fred Taban from Stephen Alvarez on Vimeo.

4 comments:

Laura said...

Something in his eyes just held me. And i did not miss that amazing background noise.

Gorgeous, devastating.

L.L. Barkat said...

For some reason I can't hear it. Sigh. I can only imagine.

Maureen said...

I wonder what's wrong. I just checked on another computer and the audio works fine. You might click on Alvarez's name to go to his site; then click on videos there.

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