Summary: 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 witchcraft,
spans the centuries to give voice to accusers and accused of
several kinds: wife and husband, servant and ma ...show
morester, 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
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