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Twenty individuals were executed and more than 150 imprisoned. The historical body of evidence that remains from the Salem witch trials of 1692 touched the hands, mind, and imagination of poet Nicole Cooley, compelling her to seek entry to an inaccessible past of lies. The Afflicted Girls, so named after the young women who claimed to be victims of witch-craft, spans the centuries to give voice to those both audible and silent on history's pages - accusers and accused of several kinds: wife and husband, servant and master, congregant and minister, and, not least, bewitched and witch. Piercing, enchanting, Cooley's poems form a remarkable narrative, one that displays the enormous cultural power the Salem witch trials retain in twenty-first-century America.
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"Cooley has summoned the discipline and the craft to maintain a perilous balance between historical researcher and poet. This is a deeply absorbing and powerful rendition of a story whose own power has been too much for some writers."
About the Author:
Nicole Cooley is an award winning poet. Her first poetry collection, Resurrection, received the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets. She is also the author of The Afflicted Girls and Judy Garland, Ginger Love. Cooley was awarded the "Discovery"/The Nation Award and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She is a professor at Queens College.
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- PublisherLouisiana State University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0807129453
- ISBN 13 9780807129456
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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