In a Convent Garden and Other Poems features poems about life within a Benedictine Convent and on the Cumberland Plateau, as well as cameos of people in the Tennessee hills and feelings engendered by visits to the homes of southern writers. A special section entitled "Yard Poems" encompasses poetic, often whimsical observations about flora and fauna of the Tennessee forests. Meditations about the spiritual life, music, art, and travel combine wonder and wisdom in a single volume that contains the songs of a profound poetic voice.