Toward the Hanging Tree

Poems of Salem Village

2016 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Poetry (Adult Nonfiction)
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This book combines an accurate portrayal of an important era in American history with poetic imagination and empathy for the people involved. The poems in the book tell the story of the Salem witch hunt of 1692 in poetic form, in the voices of the accused, the accusers, neighbors, and others involved in various ways.