The Clerk's TaleIn 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

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