Landscapes with Donkey [Paperback]

In Landscapes with Donkey, Spanish poet Jos? Manuel Marrero Henr?quez follows a gentle, gray donkey on his travels through the dusty hillsides of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located off the western coast of Africa. Wise and thoughtful, the ruminant quadruped, a doctor of the earth, studies the limits of ground and sky with the unique perspicuity of a donkeys gaze. Eventually taking us on a journey far beyond the pastures horizon, the donkey, humblest of poets, unravels the mysteries of this transcendentally beautiful and profoundly life-giving planet we call home. Winner of the 2016 ASLE Translation Grant to support the cross-cultural sharing of ecoliterature, translator Ellen Skowronski brings Marrero Henr?quezs poetry and vision to an English-speaking audience. ??

In Landscapes with Donkey / Paisajes con burro, Spanish poet Jos? Manuel Marrero Henr?quez follows a gentle, gray donkey on his travels through the hillsides of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located off the western coast of Africa. Wise and thoughtful, the ruminant quadruped, a doctor of the earth, studies the limits of ground and sky ?with the unique perspicuity of a donkeys gaze. On a journey far beyond the pastures horizon, the donkey, humblest of poets, takes flight to the Americas, Asia and Africa and unravels the mysteries of this transcendentally beautiful and profoundly life-giving planet we call home.

Jos? Manuel Marrero Henr?quez, a key figure in Hispanic and European ecocriticism, is a poet, writer, essayist, and tenured professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Reflected in his creative writing and advocacy of environmental issues, his most recent endeavor is the development of a Poetics of Breathing as a general ecocritical theory.