The Clerk's Tale

In a recent double fiction issue, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single...
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Author: Spencer Reece
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The Clerk's Tale by Reece, Spencer

The Clerk's Tale

BD$25.62

The Clerk's Tale

BD$25.62
Author: Spencer Reece
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In a recent double fiction issue, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such unusual attention has a surprising background: for many years he has worked for Brooks Brothers, a fact that lends particular nuance to the title of his collection. The Clerk's Tale pays homage not only to Chaucer but to the clerks' brotherhood of service in the mall, where "the light is bright and artificial, / yet not dissimilar to that found in a Gothic cathedral." The fifty poems in The Clerk's Tale are exquisitely restrained, shot through with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm. Gluck describes them as having "an effect I have never quite seen before, half cocktail party, half passion play . . . We do not expect virtuosity as the outward form of soul-making, nor do we associate generosity and humanity with such sophistication of means, such polished intelligence . . . Much life has gone into the making of this art, much patient craft."



Author: Spencer Reece
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 04/04/2004
Pages: 65
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780618422548


Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Nominee
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 02/23/2004 pg. 68
Booklist 04/15/2004 pg. 1417
New Yorker (The) 05/03/2004 pg. 107
Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2004

About the Author
Reece, Spencer: - Spencer Reece is a poet and priest. His first collection, The Clerk's Tale, won the Bakeless Prize in 2003, selected by Louise Gluck, and his second collection, The Road to Emmaus, was longlisted for the National Book Award. He has received an NEA grant, a Guggenheim grant, a Witter Bynner Prize from the Library Congress, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Scholar, and The New Republic. He served at the Honduran orphanage Our Little Roses, and works for the Bishop of Spain for the Reformed Episcopal Church, Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal.

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