vivify

Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.

His debut collection, “Afterparties,” published after his death in 2020 from an accidental drug overdose, showcased his considerable talent for vivifying members of the Cambodian community in Stockton.

But Gurnah avoids that misstep by gently vivifying the lives of a few African characters in all their rich humanity and even their comedy, without sentimentality or condescension.

Bowers’ works typically create a vivifying tautness between the individual and the group.

“Freedom Uncut” vivifies Michael for younger generations that didn’t live through the Pop Star Wars of the ’80s.