Acts: Poems
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A book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece--his first collection in ten years.
. . . My old love,my love who gave me language that I love,
when there are no words, there are only acts. Spencer Reece, a poet and an Episcopal priest, suffuses his poetry with tenderness, humanity, and a wonderous alchemy of beauty and sorrow. As the Nobel laureate Louise Gl ck wrote, "emanating from Spencer Reece's work is] a sense of immanence that belongs more commonly to religious passion; it is a great thing to have it again in art." Acts, the third book of poetry by Reece, is the product of a decade of work and of a life acutely lived. In it, he celebrates the language and literature of Spain and tracks his tenure at the Spanish Episcopal Church. At times, the collection is a love letter to Madrid; at other moments, to Old Lyme, Connecticut, where the speaker's parents lived until the death of his father, and to Little Compton, Rhode Island. The poems are also an homage to the letter itself, to its art and its waning means of connection across distance. In Acts, Reece confronts grief and love, loneliness and self-acceptance, with honesty, artful lyricism, and, above all, a true and luminous grace.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374100837
ISBN13:9780374100834
Release Date:May 2024
Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"
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