How Long to Read A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems by Pamela Mordecai

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A fearless collection by a trailblazing writer whose poems “represent the people, culture, and topography of the Caribbean in multidimensional, complex ways” (Tanya Shirley) A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in the true blue of islands, to the stories of freed slaves told in subversive sonnets, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, A Fierce Green Place highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai’s words, written out of a “womb-space” of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: “Women together / in one place will / bleed in solidarity / till every last body / turn super bitch at once."

How long is A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems?

A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems by Pamela Mordecai is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems?

A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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