It takes the average reader 1 hour and 13 minutes to read Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake," "vegetables / dying in the crisper." Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to...
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen is 73 pages long, and a total of 18,469 words.
This makes it 25% the length of the average book. It also has 23% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 40 minutes to read Black Aperture aloud.
Black Aperture is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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