Part love song, part eulogy, part interrogation and resistance, Chris Morgan’s ​Beast of the World ​chronicles an incisive exploration of biosphere in decline. These 35 poems alternately scintillate with erotic engagement, grief of loss, and moments of transcendent connection. This is an urgent little book of psalms for our time, articulating psychic landscapes inextricably linked to the physical world. In delicate couterpoint,  Morgan taps veins of hope in these lyrical, declamatory poems as well, discovering a collective yearning in the Eremocene Age that includes private celebrations and vital intimacies. The “Beast” roaming this remarkable first collection by an important new voice is not only animal and machine but the human heart in its full-throated, fractured cry.