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In Broken Latin explores in a series of deft, witty, sexy, and soulful poems the misunderstood, idealized, and marginalized life of a modern Roman Catholic nun. In these poems, set in the patriarchal institution of the convent, Annette Spaulding-Convy comments on the American woman's struggle for spiritual identity in contemporary culture through the voice of an ex-nun now mother/wife creating a life for herself in the world, while searching for an ethical, spiritual meaning not dependent upon traditional religious dogma.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Contents
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  1. Part I
  1. After Reciting 333 Titles for The Virgin Mary, I Remember Only 4
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  1. In the Convent We Become Clouds
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  1. from Uterine Dogma
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  1. Saint Valentine’s Dinner with Nuns
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  1. Midnight Snack with Saint Agatha
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  1. There Were No Rules about Underwear
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  1. Confessions from an Apiary
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  1. Madonna after Vespers (Remix)
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  1. Lighting Candles to Patsy Cline
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  1. Wearing a Scarf of Recycled Sari Yarn, I Want Other Gods
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  1. Against the Rules, I’ve Added Honey to the Altar Bread
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  1. Part II
  1. The Girl with the Tiny Pocketknife
  2. p. 21
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  1. Feeding Stations of the Cross
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  1. Three Classes of Relics
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  1. Bonsai Nun
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  1. When the Priest Stays for Sunday Brunch
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  1. In the Shower, She Sees White Roses
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  1. Everything except Her Head
  2. pp. 30-33
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  1. Sunday Afternoon, Waterboarding
  2. pp. 34-35
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  1. Part III
  1. Apologia Pro Vita Mea
  2. pp. 39-40
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  1. The Morning I Make Vows, the Space Shuttle Explodes
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  1. Pietà
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  1. Odors of Sanctity
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  1. The Fleet Admiral’s Daughter
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  1. You Died before I Sent a Card
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  1. Why She Would Take Off Her Shoes before Jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge
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  1. After the Abortion, Summer Visits Me in the Convent
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  1. Virgin Martyrs’ Chiffon Dessert
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  1. Part IV
  1. An Ex-Nun Resurrects the Dating God
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  1. We Color the White That Binds Us
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  1. Oratio Nocturna
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  1. I bring my newborn to the convent
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  1. “She Got Some Cute Little Lips on Her Wrist”
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  1. It’s Just Hypocrisy Needling Me
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  1. Six Ways to Sunday
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  1. Hollow Women
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  1. Via Negativa
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  1. Notes
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