The Beasts : Finishing Line Press : 9798888383032 : 21 Jul 2023 : In this incredible chapbook, Meg Files' poems sing us goodbye. As humans take their leave from this planet by ordinary death, the animals remain. Meg Files' unpretentious Beasts will not miss us but perhaps they'll note us as beautifully as she has noted them. In these straightforward, penetrating poems, we can take some solid satisfaction knowing the beasts keep the humans alive and significant a little longer. -Nicole Walker, author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster Meg Files is a modern-day mystic. How else to explain the alchemy here, of words into music, of what we call "human" (CVS and a good shit; Tupperware, Tchaikovsky; YouTube and parking lots; our existential wildfires; all our bullet points and obituaries...) into something much bigger and more beastly than that? Saint Francis of Assisi had his sermons for birds. In our strange and uncertain times, Meg Files has given us,