In Broken Latin: Poems
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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In Broken Latin: Poems
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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In Broken Latin: Poems

In Broken Latin: Poems

by Annette Spaulding-Convy
In Broken Latin: Poems

In Broken Latin: Poems

by Annette Spaulding-Convy

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781557289872
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 65
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author


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