{"id":437,"date":"2007-07-11T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T01:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/11\/paul-zimmer-envying-elephants\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T01:51:46","slug":"paul-zimmer-envying-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/11\/paul-zimmer-envying-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Zimmer, &#8220;Zimmer Envying Elephants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have a wide, friendly face<br \/>\nLike theirs, yet I can&#8217;t hang<br \/>\nMy nose like a fractured arm<br \/>\nNor flap my dishpan ears.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t curl my canine teeth,<br \/>\nSwing my tail like a filthy tassel,<br \/>\nNor make thunder without lightning.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d like to thud amply around<br \/>\nFor a hundred years or more,<\/p>\n<p>Stuffing an occasional tree top<br \/>\nInto my mouth, screwing hugely for<br \/>\nHours at a time, gaining weight,<br \/>\nAnd slowly growing a few hairs.<\/p>\n<p>Once in a while I&#8217;d charge a power pole<br \/>\nOr smash a wall down just to keep<br \/>\nEverybody loose and at a distance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0820329444\"><i>Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems<\/i><\/a>. Zimmer, the former director of the University of Georgia Press and then the University of Iowa Press, has published a dozen volumes of poetry and a collection of essays,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/081664019X\"><i>After the Fire<\/i><\/a>, about his life in the publishing industry. This is a sequel of sorts to the 1996 collection <i>Crossing to Sunlight<\/i>, even referencing that book&#8217;s cover art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a wide, friendly face Like theirs, yet I can&#8217;t hang My nose like a fractured arm Nor flap my dishpan ears. I can&#8217;t curl my canine teeth, Swing my tail like a filthy tassel, Nor make thunder without lightning. But I&#8217;d like to thud amply around For a hundred years or more, Stuffing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}