Acts : poems / Spencer Reece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reece, Spencer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Love--Poetry.

Love.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Religious poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

Summary:

"A new collection of poems from the author of the Road to Emmaus"-- Provided by publisher.

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

Contents:

San Sebastián

Sanctus

La Santa Cena

In solitaria stanza

Letters from Spain

Tres crepúsculos

Spanish dances

At the Pitt Rivers museum

Siesta

Stille Nacht

Poeta en Nueva York

Humpty Dumpty

Old Lyme rhyme

Ephphatha

Little Compton psalm

Veni creator spiritus

Hospice altarpiece

Benedictus

Wyoming

Gladeview jeu

Nunc dimittis

Pilgrim

María Magdalena.

ISBN:

9780374100834

0374100837

OCLC:

1393203657