The slowness of the oxen

The slowness of the oxen, by Julio Llamazares -consisting of a single poem divided into twenty fragments- develops a meditation on time, solitude, the sense of life and death (a meditation that will also be the axis of his next collection of poems, Memoria de la nieve, although in this one the surrealist influence will be perceptible). The slow, repetitive rhythm, so consistent with the theme, is one of the successes of the book.