It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read Burn Lake by Carrie Fountain
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha Trethewey Set in southern New Mexico, where her family's multicultural history is deeply rooted, the poems in Carrie Fountain's first collection explore issues of progress, history, violence, sexuality, and the self. Burn Lake weaves together the experience of life in the rapidly changing American Southwest with the peculiar journey of Don Juan de Oñate, who was dispatched from Mexico City in the late sixteenth- century by Spanish royalty to settle the so-called New Mexico Province, of which little was known. A letter that was sent to...
Burn Lake by Carrie Fountain is 81 pages long, and a total of 20,331 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read Burn Lake aloud.
Burn Lake is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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