Beast

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In BEAST Frances Justine Post explores the destruction and eventual reclaiming of the self following loss. Many of the poems make up a series of self-portraits that explore the psychological core of intimacy with its inherent devotion and betrayal reward and punishment. In one she is a wolf; in another an equestrian and her horse; then a tornado the dropped crumbs of a beloved a pack of hounds and finally a cannibal. The self changes form and species and switches from one voice to multiple voices. Each poem attempts to reinvent the self and alter it as a way of trying to understand what remains after devastation. </span></p>