In broken Latin : poems / by Annette Spaulding-Convy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spaulding-Convy, Annette, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, North Carolina : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Annette Spaulding-Convy is the cofounder and coeditor of <i>Two Sylvias Press</i> and coeditor of the literary journal <i>Crab Creek Review</i>. She is the author of <i>In the Convent We Become Clouds</i>, and her poems have appeared in <i>Prairie Schooner</i>, <i>North American Review</i>, and <i>Crab Orchard Review</i>, among others. She lives in a small community on Puget Sound.</div>

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Contents; I.; After Reciting 333 Titles for The Virgin Mary, I Remember Only 4; In the Convent We Become Clouds; from Uterine Dogma; Saint Valentine's Dinner with Nuns; Midnight Snack with Saint Agatha; There Were No Rules about Underwear; Confessions from an Apiary; Madonna after Vespers (Remix); Lighting Candles to Patsy Cline; Wearing a Scarf of Recycled Sari Yarn, I Want Other Gods; Against the Rules, I've Added Honey to the Altar Bread; II.; The Girl with the Tiny Pocketknife; Feeding Stations of the Cross; Three Classes of Relics; Bonsai Nun

When the Priest Stays for Sunday BrunchIn the Shower, She Sees White Roses; Everything except Her Head; Sunday Afternoon, Waterboarding; III.; Apologia Pro Vita Mea; The Morning I Make Vows, the Space Shuttle Explodes; Pietà; Odors of Sanctity; The Fleet Admiral's Daughter; You Died before I Sent a Card; Why She Would Take Off Her Shoes before Jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge; After the Abortion, Summer Visits Me in the Convent; Virgin Martyrs' Chiffon Dessert; IV.; An Ex-Nun Resurrects the Dating God; We Color the White That Binds Us; Oratio Nocturna; I bring my newborn to the convent

"She Got Some Cute Little Lips on Her Wrist"It's Just Hypocrisy Needling Me; Six Ways to Sunday; Hollow Women; Via Negativa; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61075-501-4

OCLC:

830023882