The Afflicted Girls: Poems - Softcover

Cooley, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807129461 ISBN 13: 9780807129463

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2004

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Book by Cooley Nicole

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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."

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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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• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0807129461
• ISBN 13: 9780807129463
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 66