How Long to Read Back to the Woods

How Long Does it Take to Read Back to the Woods?

It takes the average reader to read Back to the Woods by Cynthia Cruz

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

Description

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Cynthia Cruz reevaluates the paradox of the death drive in her eighth collection of poetry, Back to the Woods. Could it be that in ceaselessly snuffing ourselves out we are, in fact, trying to survive? In "Shine," Cruz's speaker attests that "if [she] had a home, it would be // a still in a film / where the sound / got jammed." This book inhabits the silence of the empty orchestra pit, facing "dread, and its many / instruments of sorrow." The quiet asks, "Did you love this world / and did this world / not love you?" We return to the site of our suffering, we perform the symphony of all our old injuries, to master what has broken us. To make possible the future, we retreat into the past. "I don't know / the ending. // I don't know anything," our speaker insists, but she follows the wind's off-kilter song of "winter / in the pines" and "the dissonance / of siskins." Cruz heeds the urgency of our wandering, the mandate that we must get back to the woods, not simply for the forest to devour us -- she recognizes in the oblivion "flooding out / from its spiral branches" an impossible promise. At the tree line, we might vanish to begin again.

How long is Back to the Woods?

Back to the Woods by Cynthia Cruz is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Back to the Woods Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Back to the Woods aloud.

What Reading Level is Back to the Woods?

Back to the Woods is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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