{"id":272,"date":"2020-02-12T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-02-15T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:50:06","slug":"zulalie-laila-by-regina-miriam-bloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/zulalie-laila-by-regina-miriam-bloch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Zulalie Laila&#8221; by Regina Miriam Bloch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a situation that&#8217;s as unusual as everything else about Regina Miriam Bloch: although we used her short fable &#8220;The Swine Gods&#8221; in <em>Weird Women<\/em>, we&#8217;d still like to share this story because it merits attention as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we note in the introduction to &#8220;The Swine Gods&#8221;, Bloch is probably the most enigmatic author in <em>Weird Women<\/em>. She published only two collections &#8211; <em>The Swine Gods and Other Visions<\/em> (1917) and <em>The Book of Strange Loves<\/em> (1918) &#8211; before all but vanishing. Over the next twenty years, Bloch,who had also been a popular poet and had received very favorable reviews for the two collections, would publish only a handful of reviews and poems, mainly in spiritualist or metaphysical publications. She died in London in 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of Bloch&#8217;s books have become very rare, with copies fetching hundreds in the secondhand market. <em>The Swine Gods<\/em> is a short book made up of dreamlike fables, but the stories in <em>Strange Loves<\/em> are more traditional in form (all are historical pieces). &#8220;Zulalie Laila&#8221; paints a lovely, eerie portrait of a woman struggling to deal with her fading beauty, and the extraordinary measure she attempts to retain it. <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ZulalieLaila.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">ZulalieLaila<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a situation that&#8217;s as unusual as everything else about Regina Miriam Bloch: although we used her short fable &#8220;The Swine Gods&#8221; in Weird Women, we&#8217;d still like to share this story because it merits attention as well. As we &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/zulalie-laila-by-regina-miriam-bloch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}