Name: Flatfish (poem) skye boat song by Jim Bauerlein
Duration: 3 min 7 s
Description: poem I wrote about fishing, old song I like to sing

poem and reading are transporting Jim. Excellence throughout!

David Getsy, Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History and chair, department of art history, theory, and criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  To celebrate the publication of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, David Getsy presented a lecture at the National Gallery of Art on October 25, 2015. The book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender and queer theory, Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by, and critical writing about, four major artists—Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), and David Smith (1906–1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender’s multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. 

Abstraction and Its Capacities

Emaweni webaba
Silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Homeless
Homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Too loo loo, too loo
Too loo loo loo loo loo loo loo loo loo
Strong wind destroy our home
Many dead, tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many dead, tonight it could be you
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake


( Somebody say hihihi hihi
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say hihihi hihi
Somebody cry why, why, why? )

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Recorded on August 8, 2016, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org.

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poem I wrote about fishing, old song I like to sing

Flatfish (poem) skye boat song

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks back at our Spring 2015 issue, "Sin." This episode includes essays by Lillian Firestone Richard Smoley and an excerpt from the Gospel of Mary Magdelene.

To read the full Sin issue or become a subscriber, please visit us at parabola.org.

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Recorded on January 11, 2017, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

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Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Brother David Steindl-Rast's essay "Learning to Die," which appeared in the Winter 1977 issue of Parabola Magazine. Learn more and read the full essay for free at Parabola.org. Parabola's extensive forty-year archives are available on our website and are free to subscribers.

Flatfish (poem) skye boat song

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