How Long to Read After Villon

How Long Does it Take to Read After Villon?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read After Villon by Roger Farr

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

Description

AFTER VILLON, the new book from Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist Roger Farr, is a book of contemporary verse translations and queer variations based on the work of 15th century poete maudit Francois Villon. Villon's poetry, written in medieval French and incorporating the argot of the Parisian criminal underworld, is notoriously bawdy, opaque, and resistant to straightforward translation. For this reason, Villon's work continues to be of considerable interest to poets, artists, and scholars working today. AFTER VILLON is informed by previous ventures into Villon's work by Ezra Pound (who invented a new poetic form, the villonaud), Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, and, especially, Jack Spicer, who similarly translated Lorca in his influential After Lorca (1957) and Jean Calais (Stephen Rodefer), whose chauvinist / beatnik version of the poet stepped forward in Villon (1987). Roger Farr's new re--workings capture the in--group opacity in Villon's work by mingling slangs from a variety of discourses and sites, everything from prison, theatre, culinary, military, to carnie slang. In his translations, Farr subverts sex and gender designations by shifting pronouns, changing names, and refusing heteronormative assumptions about the copious gaps in meaning of the original texts. Poetry. LGBTQIA+ Studies. Translation.

How long is After Villon?

After Villon by Roger Farr is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read After Villon Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read After Villon aloud.

What Reading Level is After Villon?

After Villon is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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