| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 72 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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"She Got Some Cute Little Lips on Her Wrist"It's Just Hypocrisy Needling Me; Six Ways to Sunday; Hollow Women; Via Negativa; Notes |
| Summary |
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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"2012 finalist Miller Williams Arkansas poetry prize"--Cover |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012017473 |
| ISBN |
9781610755016 |
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1610755014 |
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