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Naomi Shihab Nye — I Feel Sorry for Jesus

Poetry Unbound

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The Anti-Theology Poem: People Won't Live Malone

The Via Dolorosa is the journey from Jerusalem out to the hill where Jesus of Nazareth was executed by the Romans. Naomi Shiebnae locates herself in each of them, seeing that sorrow is written on her skin. She's putting forward a theological approach to the dangers of theological language. The anti-theology poem will be deep in its theology.

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