How Long to Read As a Patient Thinks about the Desert

How Long Does it Take to Read As a Patient Thinks about the Desert?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read As a Patient Thinks about the Desert by Rick Anthony Furtak

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

Description

Stunning, rhythmic, and existential, these poems are like a patient etherized - in the middle of the desert. Being confronted with death, at any age, concentrates the mind. All the more so when you have just recently arrived halfway to the elusive threescore years and ten. How do you find yourself, in this crisis? And, if you survive, where do you go from here? As a Patient Thinks about the Desert addresses these questions at every step along the road "from melting day to overwhelming darkness," but also through hospitalization to the promise of recovery, and even of love unforeseen. It is a reckoning with one's finite limits in invigorating verse that both demands to be read aloud and invites the silence of meditation. "Sand that cannot know it is the sand." Philosopher of emotion, translator of Rilke, and interpreter of Kierkegaard, Rick Anthony Furtak introduces his own distinctive poetic voice in this volume, speaking both in sickness and in health.

How long is As a Patient Thinks about the Desert?

As a Patient Thinks about the Desert by Rick Anthony Furtak is 88 pages long, and a total of 22,704 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read As a Patient Thinks about the Desert Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 4 minutes to read As a Patient Thinks about the Desert aloud.

What Reading Level is As a Patient Thinks about the Desert?

As a Patient Thinks about the Desert is suitable for students ages 10 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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