How Long to Read Everyday Objects: Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read Everyday Objects: Poems?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 35 minutes to read Everyday Objects: Poems by Edward a. Dougherty

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

Description

What does it mean to be a human being in a culture of war and violence? In this collection the secret life of everyday objects and the "Everyday Shames" of ordinary life reveal how a person can take possession of oneself. ------ In his third full-length collection, Everyday Objects, Edward A. Dougherty places wonderful food for thought on our plates. He spoons out wonderful imagery, knives into the truths of topics such as war, serves up wonderful writing on tenderness for those he loves, allows both sunlight and darkness to enter our kitchens in life. Savor and serve it to yourself for dessert." --Martha Deborah Hall, poet and author of fourteen chapbooks and books of poetry, including Inside Out, Heading Toward Silver Dust, Weight of Light, and Stalked in Connecticut Edward Dougherty writes life on the knife-edge, as if antinomies of birth and death, innocence and complicity, time and transcendence were next-door neighbors. He blesses the arrival of a niece even as he rues the start of another war. In Hiroshima, that "symbol-city thick with history," he celebrates--with telling irony--"our immaterial radiance." Out of the ashes of everyday come lessons in eternity. An adolescent collection of beer cans becomes "those empty halls containing secret possibilities." From him we learn the normalcy of terror and nuclear obliteration. "Who can stand," he asks, "to live in such a mansion of dilemma?" The answer, of course, is every one of us, because we must. The witness of Dougherty's book is harsh but not unrelieved. Everyday Objects also teaches transfiguration: "In the heart of each thing / is its opposite. A cross / can be crafted from manger-wood, a saint / out of any one of us." So may it always be. --Lee Rossi, poet and author of Wheelchair Samauri, Ghost Diary, and Beyond Rescue ------ Edward A. Dougherty, Professor of English at Corning Community College, was given the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. He authored two collections, Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree, and Part Darkness, Part Breath. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart prize and published internationally.

How long is Everyday Objects: Poems?

Everyday Objects: Poems by Edward a. Dougherty is 94 pages long, and a total of 23,876 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 29% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Everyday Objects: Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 10 minutes to read Everyday Objects: Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is Everyday Objects: Poems?

Everyday Objects: Poems 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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