Landscapes with Donkey
Henríquez, José Manuel Marrero / Skowronski, Ellen In Landscapes with Donkey, Spanish poet José Manuel Marrero HenrÃquez 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 donkey's gaze. Eventually taking us on a journey far beyond the pasture's horizon,...