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Victor, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the Poetry category Finalist, 2015 Balcones Poetry Award Shortlist finalist, 2015 PEN Open Book Award for an exceptional e book by an author of color "Another Anti-Pastoral," the starting poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and untamed things in the composed, imposed peace of the Charming poets with whom she is in dialogue. Vievee Francis's poems indulge many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors - trust in a secular era, the location and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the untamed world guaranteed in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but instead free and finely attuned to its environment. The listener who joins her will emerge sensitized and modified by the long lasting electric power of her work.
