{"id":65669,"date":"2011-03-01T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/?p=65669"},"modified":"2020-06-21T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:03:05","slug":"elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretending to See Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Elephants.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65671\" width=\"250\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Elephants.jpg 333w, http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Elephants-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Elephants-260x390.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Elephants-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This volume, Ralph Pordzik&#8217;s second to be published after Hotel Salvador Dali (2008), adds to his growing reputation as a new international voice writing in English. Not unlike its precursor, Pretending to See Elephants explores a wide range of feeling; spanning the grating stridence and urbanity of short verse and the cacophonous voices of longer elegies and monologues, the poems tucked away between these covers engage a startling variety of subjects showing both the precision and rhythmical poise of a writer using English to express personal sentiment in a globalizing poetical context. The central poem &#8211; a gripping fictional sequence about the wandering biblical sage Qoheleth &#8211; is preceded by shorter pieces dealing with a broad range of topics, all showing the rigors of a conscious craft that seeks everywhere to liberate the imagination. &#8222;. . . a cross between T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and New York LANGUAGE poetry (if anyone asks)!&#8220; (Chris Thurgar-Dawson, Teesside University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This volume, Ralph Pordzik&#8217;s second to be published after Hotel Salvador Dali (2008), adds to his growing reputation as a new international voice writing in English. Not unlike its precursor, Pretending to See Elephants explores a wide range of feeling;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/elephants\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1183],"class_list":["post-65669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literatur","tag-ralph-pordzik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.editiondaslabor.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}