It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Breathing Room by Peter Davison
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and startling freedom, feeling 'entitled to / the liberty of breathing easy'--a freedom that brings with it the old clarity and eloquence." --W. S. Merwin The poems in Peter Davison's exuberant new collection contemplate the paradox of growing old--of having a mind still "a juicy swamp of invention" in a body...
Breathing Room by Peter Davison is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Breathing Room aloud.
Breathing Room is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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