Clerk's Tale Poems

Name: Clerk's Tale Poems
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ISBN: 9780618422548

ISBN-10: 0618422544

ISBN-13: 9780618422548

Edition: 2004

Authors: Spencer Reece, Laureate Louise Gluck

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286

Spencer Reece was born in 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and in many literary journals. Reece is an assistant manager at Brooks Brothers in Palm Beach. He lives in Lantana, Florida.



Foreword



Portofino


The Clerk's Tale


Chiaroscuro


A Bestiary



The Snake



The Frog



The Bat



The Cat



The Elephant


Tonight


Then


Chrysanthemums


Autumn Song


Midnight


Winter Scene


Diminuendo


Ghazals for Spring


Cape Cod


Ponies


Triptych



Politics



Homosexuality



Easter


Etude


Florida Ghazals


Interior


Addresses



To You



Divinity Avenue



To My Brother



Pentimento



Coda



United Hospital



Blue



To Those Grown Mute



Fugue



To Martha My Nurse



Minneapolis



Beverly Road



Afton



Two Bright Rooms



Boca Raton



Loxahatchee



Summerland Key



Worth Avenue



I Have Dreamed of You So Much



Vizcaya


Interlude


Morbidezza