An Essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal\'s history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations, plowed the fields that fed generations, and carted soldiers and weapons from war to war.
In these twenty-five linked pieces, a truth is made real: that we must cherish eac.
The Poems undo the brunt end of every lewd joke and unearth the sacred origins of a creature we rarely consider except as melancholy cartoon or dumb, stubborn brute.
An Essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal\'s history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations, plowed the fields that fed generations, and carted soldiers and weapons from war to war