How Long to Read Domain of Perfect Affection

How Long Does it Take to Read Domain of Perfect Affection?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker

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

Description

In Domain of Perfect Affection, Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard, or museum; New York or New Mexico. “The Mosaic injunction against / the graven image” inspires meditations on drawings by Dürer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness—“Worry stole the kayaks and soured the milk”—suffused with self-knowledge: “Worry wraps her long legs / around me, promises to be mine forever.” In “The New Egypt,” the narrator mines her family’s legacy: “From my father I learned the dignity / of exile and the fire of acquisition, / not to live in places lightly, but to plant / the self like an orange tree in the desert.” Becker’s shapely stanzas—couplets, tercets, quatrains, pantoum, sonnet, syllabics—subvert her colloquial diction, creating a seamless merging of subject and form. Luminous, sensual, these poems offer sharp pleasures as they argue, elegize, mourn, praise, and sing.

How long is Domain of Perfect Affection?

Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker is 88 pages long, and a total of 22,704 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Domain of Perfect Affection Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 4 minutes to read Domain of Perfect Affection aloud.

What Reading Level is Domain of Perfect Affection?

Domain of Perfect Affection is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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