The Slowness of Oxen. Book presentation

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The slowness of oxenby Julio Llamazares - made up of a unitary poem divided into twenty fragments - develops a meditation on time, solitude, the meaning of life and death (a meditation that will also be the axis of his next collection of poems, Memory of snow(although the surrealist influence will be perceptible in this one). The slow, reiterative rhythm, so in keeping with the theme, is one of the book's strengths.

"The memory (of the snow) and the memories (those oxen that pass slowly over it, casting mist and vapour over an increasingly blurred and blurred landscape) are my entire poetic heritage and on which the whole architecture of my literature and of my identity is based. That is why this book is so important to me, so inseparable from my human condition, a human condition that permeates my imagination and, I would dare say, my very conscience". From the prologue by Julio Llamazares.

"La lentitud de los bueyes has, beyond its surprising verbal associations (an essentially poetic characteristic), a narrative component: it is a strange journey from memory (and from oblivion) in the background of which the image of a lost place and a lost time is stabilised. A time and a place of vanished peasant serenity". Antonio Gamoneda, Ceranda.