Maleficae Emma Bolden Books
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Poetry. During the European witch trials, over one hundred thousand people were prosecuted for maleficia. The vast majority were women. Many were unmarried. Many owned property. Some were midwives who counseled village women about their health, their pregnancies, and their marriages. Others were simply nonconformists. MALEFICAE tells the story of one so-called witch a woman who, like many others, was once seen as her village's savior, but became the focus of the villagers' fear and rage when disaster struck.
This book-length series of poems seeks to re-create the terror and inhumanity of the trials. Incorporating language from trial records to papal bulls to incendiary theological documents, these poems explore the intersection of forces that led to the persecution of people who were deemed different and therefore dangerous—forces alarmingly similar to those still operating today. At the center of all of this is the woman who was called a witch her story, her wail from the center of the flames. In allowing her new testimony, in allowing the dead to speak, MALEFICAE gives voice to the voiceless victims of the trials.
"In this incantatory series of lyric poems Emma Bolden finds a new way to write about an old (though still current) subject. This book speaks in many tongues, many vivid, and living tongues."—Thomas Lux
"Emma Bolden's MALEFICAE is an ambitious and powerful accomplishment. Informed by historical records of European witchcraft trials, it is wholly contemporary in its layered complexity and poetic craft. Incantatory rhythms, shifting perspectives and voices, and vividly rendered dream/nightmare imagery make these poems hypnotic and haunting. The contrast between historical content and contemporary form—between fact and imagination—intensifies the dramatic impact and reminds us that the past is, in one form or another, always present."—Eric Nelson
"Lust, freedom, repression, sin, shame. The fearful, oppressive denial of female empowerment and agency. MALEFICAE has all the conceptual intelligence of a Feminist study, but it makes its argument via artful imagined experience. This is a poetry 'possessed' of a musical and rhetorical mastery that cast their own incantatory spell, compelling us to feel the thin membrane between modernity and our past, between pragmatism and inner mystery. It made me think of those Anne Sexton poems that utilize and transcend her confessionalism, speaking not just for herself, but for all women."—Mark Cox
Maleficae Emma Bolden Books
This stunning books is a must-have for all lovers of passionate, carefully crafted poetry. In 41 excellent poems, Emma Bolden tells a gripping story of a non-conformist woman who “with hair sun-slick even in moonfall a woman / of ribbons who glistens sent by God / and His Good Grace to punish to warn the other good / women of what good can do” (4). The powerful poems are full of beautiful and emotional images, such as the following: “I became anew / a new creature I became stripped of its sea / a fish who survived a scaling // to stand before the fishermen / sanguine” (18). I was deeply touched by this book and cannot wait to read more poems by this writer.Product details
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The words are evocative and often beautiful, the imagery visceral, precise, wrenching, vivid. Bolden's carefully spaced words and phrases deliver so much gratification on first read that one can't help returning to the lines again and again.
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This stunning books is a must-have for all lovers of passionate, carefully crafted poetry. In 41 excellent poems, Emma Bolden tells a gripping story of a non-conformist woman who “with hair sun-slick even in moonfall a woman / of ribbons who glistens sent by God / and His Good Grace to punish to warn the other good / women of what good can do” (4). The powerful poems are full of beautiful and emotional images, such as the following “I became anew / a new creature I became stripped of its sea / a fish who survived a scaling // to stand before the fishermen / sanguine” (18). I was deeply touched by this book and cannot wait to read more poems by this writer.
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