It takes the average reader 1 hour and 42 minutes to read All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems by Richard Newman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
All the Wasted Beauty of the World, a finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award, extols the beautiful as readily as it expounds on the blemished. The reasoned commingles with the rambunctious, as in the case of the speaker who declares that “our lives span diaper to diaper,/ and in between we piss on anyone/ we can.” Little escapes notice in these poems of gutsy realism and formal deftness, which freely highlight the fringes of society-the speaker in “Bellefontaine Cemetery” exhorts teens to “party on people’s graves” and have “a few close shaves with county sheriffs,” the carcass of a Ford...
All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems by Richard Newman is 102 pages long, and a total of 25,704 words.
This makes it 34% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 20 minutes to read All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems aloud.
All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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