Forest Primeval: Poems (Unabridged) Forest Primeval: Poems (Unabridged)

Forest Primeval: Poems (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Winner, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the Poetry category

Finalist, 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize

Shortlist finalist, 2015 PEN Open Book Award for an exceptional book by an author of color

"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in dialogue. Vievee Francis's poems engage many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors - faith in a secular age, the city and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but rather free and finely attuned to its surroundings. The listener who joins her will emerge sensitized and changed by the enduring power of her work.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
VF
Vievee Francis
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
01:42
hr min
RELEASED
2017
May 24
PUBLISHER
Spoken Word Inc.
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
82
MB