{"product_id":"acts-poems-9780374100834","title":"Acts: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece--his first collection in ten years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . My old love, \u003cbr\u003emy love who gave me language that I love, \u003cbr\u003ewhen there are no words, there are only acts.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpencer 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eActs\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eActs\u003c\/i\u003e, Reece confronts grief and love, loneliness and self-acceptance, with honesty, artful lyricism, and, above all, a true and luminous grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpencer Reece\u003c\/b\u003e's first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Clerk?s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by Louise Gl?ck as winner of the Bakeless Prize and recognized with an award from the Library of Congress. His second collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Emmaus\u003c\/i\u003e, was long-listed for the National Book Award and short-listed for the Griffin Prize. Reece has also edited a bilingual anthology of poems by the abandoned girls of Our Little Roses, \u003ci\u003eCounting Time Like People Count Stars\u003c\/i\u003e; written a poet's memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Gospel of Mark\u003c\/i\u003e; and published a book of watercolors, \u003ci\u003eAll the Beauty Still Left\u003c\/i\u003e. An Episcopal priest, he served in San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Madrid; and New York City. He is the vicar of St. Paul's, Wickford, Rhode Island.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613582463250,"sku":"9780374100834","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_59ee9326-69e7-45b7-be53-63164358b7ac.jpg?v=1748519192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/acts-poems-9780374100834","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}