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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.
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.