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FOREST PRIMEVAL: POEMS urban and historical moments"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