In Broken Latin
Poems by Annette Spaulding-Convy
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: University of Arkansas Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Acknowledgments
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pp. v-vi
thanks to the editors of the following journals in which these poems appeared, sometimes in a different form: Cascade Journal, “Confessions from an apiary”; Crab Creek Review, “why she would take off Her shoes before Jumping from the golden gate...
Contents
Part I
After Reciting 333 Titles for The Virgin Mary, I Remember Only 4
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pp. 3-5
In the Convent We Become Clouds
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pp. 6-
from Uterine Dogma
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pp. 7-9
Saint Valentine’s Dinner with Nuns
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pp. 10-
Midnight Snack with Saint Agatha
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pp. 11-
There Were No Rules about Underwear
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pp. 12-
Confessions from an Apiary
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pp. 13-
Madonna after Vespers (Remix)
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pp. 14-
Lighting Candles to Patsy Cline
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pp. 15-
Wearing a Scarf of Recycled Sari Yarn, I Want Other Gods
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pp. 16-
Against the Rules, I’ve Added Honey to the Altar Bread
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pp. 17-
Part II
The Girl with the Tiny Pocketknife
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pp. 21-
Feeding Stations of the Cross
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pp. 22-25
Three Classes of Relics
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pp. 26-
Bonsai Nun
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pp. 27-
When the Priest Stays for Sunday Brunch
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pp. 28-
In the Shower, She Sees White Roses
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pp. 29-
Everything except Her Head
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pp. 30-33
Sunday Afternoon, Waterboarding
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pp. 34-35
Part III
Apologia Pro Vita Mea
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pp. 39-40
The Morning I Make Vows, the Space Shuttle Explodes
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pp. 41-
Pietà
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pp. 42-
Odors of Sanctity
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pp. 43-44
The Fleet Admiral’s Daughter
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pp. 45-46
You Died before I Sent a Card
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pp. 47-48
Why She Would Take Off Her Shoes before Jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge
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pp. 49-
After the Abortion, Summer Visits Me in the Convent
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pp. 50-
Virgin Martyrs’ Chiffon Dessert
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pp. 51-52
Part IV
An Ex-Nun Resurrects the Dating God
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pp. 55-
We Color the White That Binds Us
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pp. 56-
Oratio Nocturna
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pp. 57-
I bring my newborn to the convent
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pp. 58-
“She Got Some Cute Little Lips on Her Wrist”
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pp. 59-60
It’s Just Hypocrisy Needling Me
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pp. 61-
Six Ways to Sunday
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pp. 62-63
Hollow Women
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pp. 64-65
Via Negativa
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pp. 66-67
Notes
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pp. 69-72
E-ISBN-13: 9781610755016
E-ISBN-10: 1610755014
Print-ISBN-13: 9781557289872
Print-ISBN-10: 1557289875
Page Count: 65
Publication Year: 2012
