How Long to Read Down the Highway, a Peace

How Long Does it Take to Read Down the Highway, a Peace?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 24 minutes to read Down the Highway, a Peace by Richard J. (Rick) Hilber

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

Description

The northern Great Plains have given this poet a first canvas for his imaginative art as found in his first published poetry collection. In recent years he has began to struggle with the difficult topics of his home region, primarily the difficulty of life out on the northern Great Plains in what he has termed the "patches." In these poems are references to the sugar beet patch, the dry land farming patch, the irrigated farm land patch, the ranching patch, the strip mining patch, and the oil patch. The agrarian culture of his home region is a place of core values and spiritual strengths which encourage him to live simply inspite of the new "badlands" left in the wake of the cultural genocide and environmental degradation of the empire builders of the European ascendancy over North America. Here are poems spoken by personae which can be said to each be the masks of the poet Rick Hilber who in creating his poems would have us, poet and reader or listener, step into the shoes of another. This is a poet that trusts that his individual experience is also a disclosure of the demands on each of us in accepting life on whatever terms it is offered us. ...

How long is Down the Highway, a Peace?

Down the Highway, a Peace by Richard J. (Rick) Hilber is 139 pages long, and a total of 36,001 words.

This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 44% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Down the Highway, a Peace Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 16 minutes to read Down the Highway, a Peace aloud.

What Reading Level is Down the Highway, a Peace?

Down the Highway, a Peace 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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