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.

. . . 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 Gl