It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read After Homer by Peter Filkins
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Written in a voice both direct and timely, After Homer speaks to our historical moment in a way that connects with a larger sense of our time passing. At times personal, at times political, the poems remain anchored in a formal complexity that delivers clarity and nuance to the ideas set forth within them. Whether writing about the sinking of the Lusitania, the death of Chekhov, his father's passing, or the death of the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, Filkins reminds us that, no matter the loss, "poetry will survive, " helped by the studied meditation he brings to it. Meanwhile, at the beginning...
After Homer by Peter Filkins is 79 pages long, and a total of 20,461 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read After Homer aloud.
After Homer is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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