How Long to Read Displacement

How Long Does it Take to Read Displacement?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 41 minutes to read Displacement by Leslie Harrison

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Harrison's astute if uneven debut stages a contest between memory and geography. On the one hand, she writes about retrospect, regret, elegy: my father gone into the long/ raveling of sidereal years was gone into coffin/ three days before someone remembered he had/ children somewhere. On the other hand, she cannot help imagining travel, new vistas, escapes: one such poem, Peace, asks us to cherish brief moments before dawn when you believe/ in other beds, lose possibilities,/ before you don your life like a B-movie/ unlovely and badly cut. A former photojournalist, Harrison thinks in panels, exposures, frames: her quiet free verse neither undercuts nor much enhances her concise symbols: You were the kite I used/ to learn to love the wind. Given her insistence on change and travel, Harrison's final section (poems about home and houses) can seem predictable. So can her efforts at descriptive epiphany: the sky like some/ porcelain cup/ crazed and limned. In her best moments, Harrison extends her poetic sympathies beyond herselfinto the sunlight or the outlines of a new place, in a kite, in the rain or in the migrating monarch butterfly, bitter with the weedy milk/ and his endless, vacant nations. (July) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

How long is Displacement?

Displacement by Leslie Harrison is 98 pages long, and a total of 25,284 words.

This makes it 33% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Displacement Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 18 minutes to read Displacement aloud.

What Reading Level is Displacement?

Displacement is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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