It takes the average reader 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Defunctive Music by William Guy
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The subject-gamut of these poems is wide: it ranges from meditations on sex (as in the author?s fiction) to meditations on American history and politics (black/white relations, draft dodging, presidential politics). The prevailing concern, however, is with tricks of memory, with moments in and out of time, distraction fits when past selves or past lives rise up to re-engulf the ?present? person. These poems ring changes on Montaigne?s idea of ondoyance, the flux of personality. They are ghost stories in the same way Henry James?s works of fiction and of autobiography often are. Ghost stories too (or perhaps especially) in the substantial section of translations with which the volume concludes: the poet assumes or is haunted by the voices of others.
Defunctive Music by William Guy is 337 pages long, and a total of 86,609 words.
This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 53 minutes to read Defunctive Music aloud.
Defunctive Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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