How Long to Read Blood Stripes

How Long Does it Take to Read Blood Stripes?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read Blood Stripes by Aaron Graham

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

Description

Aaron Graham's debut full-length collection is a haunting, unprecedented example of contemporary trench poetry. Set in Iraq during the mid-2000's, Blood Stripesdelves into the complexity and trauma of modern conflict. Through the eyes of a marine, these poems illustrate the intimacy of violence with candid brutality. Beyond the innate bonds formed between comrades, a strange communion develops across enemy lines as those charged with destroying each other do so with a kind of tenderness. Through inflicting atrocities, the speaker forges human connection--connections that cannot be replicated outside of war. In these poems, violence is a new creature, one that is concurrently loathsome yet addictive and sensual. Amid the shrapnel and the sand wet with bits of lung, this violence is perhaps born of a love of the struggle. While the marine unwittingly volunteers to be a harbinger of death, it is a role of eternal confinement. These poems reveal the moral ambiguity of the causal sequence of war, as at home the marine is haunted by trauma while continuing to crave it. The side effects of conflict cannot be outlive; despite quickclot being applied to a ruptured artery, some bleeding cannot be stopped.

How long is Blood Stripes?

Blood Stripes by Aaron Graham is 90 pages long, and a total of 22,500 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Blood Stripes Aloud?

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

What Reading Level is Blood Stripes?

Blood Stripes 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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