How Long to Read Concertina

How Long Does it Take to Read Concertina?

It takes the average reader to read Concertina by Joseph Bathanti

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Description

In 1976, Joseph Bathanti left his home in Pittsburgh for a fourteen month sojourn as a VISTA Volunteer with the North Carolina Department of Corrections. His new volume of poems, Concertina, recounts in lyrical sweep his entry into the surreal, brutal, and often terrifyingly beautiful netherworld of convicts and their keepers. It is a world with one foot still firmly planted in the old chain gang, the other venturing beyond the manacles of history into a realm of second chances, while the country, in the throes of its bicentennial celebration, still swoons from Watergate and its aftermath. What's more, Concertina, is an outsider's meditation on the American South and the power of place to transform not only language, but to instill in the speaker the impulse to tell the story of everything his eye lights upon. Indeed, Bathanti's world is as much about the geography, the very ether, of North Carolina, as it is about prisons. His voice is contemplative, poised on a tightrope of its own making, pitched near detonation. There are poems about the gas chamber, bounty hunters, bloodhounds and violence. But there are also poems about yard basketball games, the prison kitchen, Christmas parties, children visiting their imprisoned mothers, guards as undone by their lives in prison as the prisoners, and released convicts stumbling into society after years behind bars. Even Raskolnikov makes a cameo. All the while, the speaker is falling in love with another VISTA, a woman from Georgia. Above all, these poems doggedly insist that, even in abject suffering, sustained love and shared humanity supply redemption. Book jacket.

How long is Concertina?

Concertina by Joseph Bathanti is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Concertina Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Concertina aloud.

What Reading Level is Concertina?

Concertina is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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