The Lost Books of the Bestiary is a collection of poems that explores the psychic connections between our human and animal selves. They inform who we are and how we come into being.
Traditionally, during the middle ages the bestiary was an illuminated collection that described both real and imagined animals of symbolic significance. Often these fables reflected a belief that every living thing had its own special meaning and by understanding them, we gain insights into the ways of the world and mind of God. However, this collection is an imaginative, evolutionary journey that draws on sense, myth and spirit to understand our genesis of becoming.
“Chapman Hood Frazier’s “The Lost Books of the Bestiary” is both requiem and elegy. . . . Frazier’s collection instructs us how to celebrate life even as it is passing from us, to realize that the stone by the tomb’s door [is] a luminescence. ”
About the Poems
Since our earliest times, as our ancient ancestors created depictions of animals on cave walls in Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, humans have been inspired by animals both real and imagined.
These poems are little windows into the soul through the familiar and the unfamiliar, the commonplace and the strange. Each provides a perspective into the evolution of the spirit over time. They are for those of us interested in an evolution of consciousness through the physical, the symbolic, and the spiritual domains, a way to explore our inner worlds.
The collection begins as a book of origins where we examine the world of animals through the facets of life they inhabit. It is for readers of poetry but also for those interested in exploring the known and unknown, consciousness and the unknowable.
About the Book
From V Press LC, February 2023
60 pages ISBN: 979-8-9854670-6-2
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