![]() ![]() Smart, sensuous, engaging-these poems balance fierceness with gentleness, humor with darkness, and they are innovative while still being understandable. "Annette Spaulding-Convy's In Broken Latin takes everything you ever assumed about life in the convent and turns it on its head. Hilda Raz, author of What Happens and Trans After she leaves the convent, she imagines finding her habit in the closet: "Maybe on the back, I'll sketch a rib / returning to man because it's tired / of the story." Wit, learning, candor, and formal discipline raise the poems, which soar like spirit for the reader's pleasure." Annette Spaulding-Convy was a nun and she is a poet. " In Broken Latin disorders the ritualized life of a passionate and learned Roman Catholic nun, soon to leave her order for the joys and losses of a secular life, a woman's life with childbirth, depression, and rituals at the heart. Julianna Baggott, author of This Country of Mothers, Lizzie Borden in Love, and Pure A riveting portrait of the passions of the body as well as the soul, In Broken Latin is ecstatic and wise, brutal and tender. "Annette Spaulding-Convy's In Broken Latin is a lurid, sumptuous, shocking collection of poems, as intimate as any memoir. ![]() Miller Williams Poetry Prize Finalist (University of Arkansas Press, 2012) In Broken Latinby Annette Spaulding-Convy ![]()
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