How Long to Read Disappointment Island

How Long Does it Take to Read Disappointment Island?

It takes the average reader to read Disappointment Island by Monty Reid

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Description

In several long sequences of precise lyrics, small songs and "narrowed prayers," Reid casts a paleontologist's eye on the accumulations of everyday life, the remains of the near and distant past. Objects, those accretions of memory, are taken down from the shelving and dusted off by a mind hungry for meaning and transcendence. This is a poetry that asks the big questions: What survives, and what may be revealed by listening to the "erotic murmur of material things?" In so many of these moving poems, time is telescoped and small human figures are set against a stark backdrop of barrens, desert places, stones and "an excess of bones." There are meditations on the arrogance of seeking such emptiness, and also on the various places and provisional dwellings we come to call home: a cabin fastened into place "by sticking the chimney into the mist," a crumbling Cuban love hotel and "the faintly luminous tents that have gathered like so many eyes / around the fire in the desert..." Here be wonders.

How long is Disappointment Island?

Disappointment Island by Monty Reid 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 Disappointment Island Aloud?

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

What Reading Level is Disappointment Island?

Disappointment Island is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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