How Long to Read Acoustic Shadows

How Long Does it Take to Read Acoustic Shadows?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read Acoustic Shadows by John Matthias

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

Description

Acoustic shadows - sound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil War - complicates the lives of many figures appearing in these poems, including that of the young John Matthias at his Grandfather's house on Iuka Drive in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. This book, Matthias's first volume of entirely new poems since Complayntes for Doctor Neuro (Shearsman, 2016), includes a group of short autobiographical poems followed by an essay called "Some Zones" (about places in which a kind of imaginative clarity becomes possible) and two longish sequences, "Prynne and a Petoskey Stone" and "First and Last Opinions," dealing with the American Midwest from the perspective of J.H. Prynne's Cambridge, and the Ohio Supreme Court opinions written by Matthias's father and grandfather. The title poem concludes the volume by bringing together memories and documents relating to the poet's Great-Grandfather, especially Civil War battles in which Albert C. Matthias fought alongside the famous and mysterious Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil's Dictionary, who disappeared in Mexico in 1913.

How long is Acoustic Shadows?

Acoustic Shadows by John Matthias 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read Acoustic Shadows Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read Acoustic Shadows aloud.

What Reading Level is Acoustic Shadows?

Acoustic Shadows is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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