An ark for the next millennium
Subtitle: poems
By: by José Emilio Pacheco ; drawings by Francisco Toledo ; translations by Margaret Sayers Peden from Album de zoología, selected by Jorge Esquinca.
Contributors: Toledo, Francisco, 1940-; Peden, Margaret Sayers.; Esquinca, Jorge.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Animals -- Poetry.
Description: Jose Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions - sometimes comic, often tragic - of the human condition. His Album de zoologia, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche - cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share.
Notes: English and Spanish.