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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Poet pays homage to Chaucer / Brooks Brothers

Wednesday October 27, 2004
Recently, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such 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."

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