The secret gospel of Mark : a poet's memoir / by Spencer Reece.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781644210420
- ISBN: 1644210428
- Physical Description: 411 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: A Seven Stories Press first edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2021]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | O love, how did you get here? -- Why should you be one too? -- A broken altar -- To be brought down -- Keep fast hold of your parents -- But where I say hours I mean years -- Follow me. |
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Subject: | Reece, Spencer. Poets, American > Biography. Gay clergy > United States > Biography. Poetry > History and criticism. Reece, Spencer. Gay clergy. Poetry. Poets, American. United States. |
Genre: | Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Autobiographies. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 811.6 REE (Text) | 000161021 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Secret Gospel of Mark : A Poet's Memoir
Spencer Reece's first published book of poetry, The Clerk's Tale , was selected from the slush pile by Louise Gl ck as the winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2004. The titular poem was adapted into a short film by James Franco in 2010. Reece is also the author of the poetry collection The Road to Emmaus , published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in 2014, a finalist for the Griffin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. For several years he lived in Madrid, where he was the national secretary to the Episcopal bishop of Spain. He currently lives in Queens, NY, where he took over a parish when their priest died of Covid-19.