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Blog – Paul Baerman

Vox populi

As someone who has taken decades to find his voice, I think a lot about the word. Though its etymological origin lies in human utterance, we musicians speak of the voicing of …

How I Came to Cross the Jabbok

By midafternoon we’d come to the river

beyond which Esau’s henchmen lay,

The banks bright with chittering poplars

and a vista of wild olives and tulips,

pines and reeds. Gazelles nibbled

the grass while larks and finches …

The other I

I think I mentioned my Biblical work-in-progress. I’m still circling and circling like a hawk watching Jacob and the angel brawling below me, but I need to get closer in order to …

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