Broken Together

A Minister's Daughter

Alexandra Coe

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781666732535
  9781666726350
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666726367
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Broken Together: A Minister's Daughter is a multi-genre work including poetry, short prose, and essays, punctuated with biblical meditations in poetic and dramatic form. The work explores addiction and mental health issues in religious families, as well as sexual molestation, gun violence, war, COVID-19, and the "American Dream." One of the work's goals is to soften the distinction between "sacred" and "secular" so that all of us, Christian and non-Christian, may find ourselves in the work, and the voiceless may find a voice.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Introduction
• Genealogy
• The Fall: A Drama
• Tamzen Donner Speaks*
• The Flaming Sword: A Treacherous Beckoning, The Sign of the Curse, and a Cross
• The Grass is Always Greener
• Empathy for the Spider
• Westward Ho: The Animals Speak
• Ma-To-Toh-Pa (“Four Bears”, Fur Trader, Mandan Tribe, 1784–1837, Dakota Territory)
• COVID 19, April 2020
• To the Churches in Exile
• Communion
• College Romance
• Short Stay in the Psych Ward #1
• Short Stay in the Psych Ward #2— The Day Room
• Praeparatio: An Advent Sermon
• Drybones (Ezekiel 37:1–14)
• The Tipsy Parson
• The Inter-Testamental Period
• Melanie
• How Many Likes?
• This Little Thing
• Natural Born World Shaker, “Cool Hand Luke”
• Tombs of Two Generals
• War Machine
• Casualty
• American Guns
• The Impeccable Logic of James Holmes (The “Dark Knight” Killer)
• Lost Time
• A Conversation: The Woman at the Well
• 12 Step Meeting
• Survivor—An Imaginary Therapist’s Notes
• Chance Meeting of Poets on the Street†
• Sober
• THREE UNDISCOVERED TUDOR MANUSCRIPTS
• We, The Women
• Child of God?
• One Step Ahead—Like a Rolling Stone