How Long to Read Astonishment

How Long Does it Take to Read Astonishment?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Astonishment by Anne Stevenson

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

Description

Taking its title from Derek Walcott's line, 'The perpetual ideal is astonishment', Anne Stevenson's sixteenth collection of poems looks back over eighty years of the earth's never-ceasing turbulence, setting clearly remembered scenes from her personal past against a background of geographical and historical change. As always, her chief preoccupation is with the extraordinary nature of experience itself, and this she explores as a geologist might explore the rock layers beneath an urban surface relied upon by the senses, yet in the perspective of deep time acknowledged to be temporary and...

How long is Astonishment?

Astonishment by Anne Stevenson 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 Astonishment Aloud?

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

What Reading Level is Astonishment?

Astonishment 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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