Novitiate

Authors

sexuality, religious life, Catholicism, desire, Teresa of Ávila

Alone in her room, a young novice gives in to desire and reflects on her coming vows as St. Teresa’s image looks on by candlelight.

Sal Cetrano

Sal Cetrano is a poet and former history teacher in the high schools of New York City. Published in six countries, his work has appeared, among other places, in California Quarterly, Psychopoetica, Poetry Australia, The Galley Sail Review, Poetry New Zealand, Black Bear Review, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review and Poetry Wales. A regular at Norman Mailer’s Gramercy boxing club in the 1980s, he takes pride in a twenty-seven-year correspondence with the author. Now happily retired, he clings to the Catholic belief that work is punishment for Original Sin.