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Acts: Poems

Acts: Poems

Reece, Spencer

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0374100837
ISBN13: 9780374100834
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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 Glück 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.

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