How Long to Read Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems by Barbara Goldberg

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

Description

In a lifetime of prize-winning work, a poet invents many selves and voices. Barbara Goldberg doubles that by calling upon such a wide range of subject matter, from Medieval history, to her family of origin, to fairy tales, to current events. Women and men from throughout the ages dance, rage, and practice their genius and trickery upon one another throughout these rich and generous pages. Says Stephen Dunn, Barbara Goldberg likens the body to the earth's crust, and adds, '...the deeper / the fault, the more it can hold.' It's a line typical of her capacity for deep sympathy in poems that also manage to be ferocious with precise honesties. Goldberg turns away from nothing, and never separates herself from what's unattractive in us. Throughout I felt in the presence of embodied truth. Lucille Clifton exclaimed that her vivid imagery, her direct and forceful telling, help warn and counsel her readers. One envies her good eye and celebrates the voice that in its 'hunger for clarity' speaks. While Naomi Shahib Nye calls Goldberg's work a deep, indelible tonic to the soul, Stanley Kunitz praised the inventiveness of her mind and the brilliant assurance of her craft. David St. John concludes that Goldberg shows us how we sometimes choose to devour--over and over again, often relishing their texture--those very wounds that have made us who we are and what we have come to believe. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. Fairy Tales. History. Gender Studies. WW2.

How long is Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems?

Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems by Barbara Goldberg is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems?

Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems 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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