Acts: Poems

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.

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 poe...