How Long to Read Backlit Hour

How Long Does it Take to Read Backlit Hour?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 29 minutes to read Backlit Hour by José Antonio Rodríguez

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

Description

Whether silently coveting the birthday gifts of a privileged classmate, trying to connect with a mother's ghost-like presence, or interrogating the dehumanizing impulse of an Arizona minuteman, the speaker of these poems often finds himself on the “wrong” side of the border that delineates a space of belonging, marginalized or estranged from his surroundings, observing the Other with a sense of both awe and bewilderment. As such, the poems invite the reader to consider the relationship between life observed and life lived, between detachment and experience, between at-homeness and exile. In the poem “Backlit”, for example, the speaker is transfixed by the darkening silhouette of a loved one standing before a window, this presence becoming an absence in the shape of a human body; he thinks to speak but doesn't, foreshadowing the final poem about an intimate friend coming to terms with his imminent mortality through the quiet contemplation of an possum's skeleton. These poems, navigating a landscape marked by political, physical, and emotional trauma, ultimately point to the potential of the sensual self – of touch – to transcend the limits of language.

How long is Backlit Hour?

Backlit Hour by José Antonio Rodríguez is 87 pages long, and a total of 22,359 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Backlit Hour Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Backlit Hour aloud.

What Reading Level is Backlit Hour?

Backlit Hour 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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