It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read A Book of Witness by Jerome Rothenberg
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A landmark collection by one of America's leading avant-gardists. A Book of Witness: Spells & Gris-Gris is Jerome Rothenberg's passage from one centuryone millenniumto another. Of the one hundred poems that comprise the book, the first half were written in 1999, the second in the two years that followed. But far more than a marker of era-shifting, it is a collection that reestablishes the primacy of the poetic I, not in the sense of a confessional, personal voice, but of the grammatical first person as both a singular witness and conduit for othersa kind of prophecy. Often incantatory, the...
A Book of Witness by Jerome Rothenberg is 132 pages long, and a total of 33,264 words.
This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read A Book of Witness aloud.
A Book of Witness is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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