How Long to Read From a Red Barn

How Long Does it Take to Read From a Red Barn?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read From a Red Barn by Victor Rodriguez

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

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Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen. Winner of Spain's Alfons el Magnànim Prize in 2013 and published the following year by the prestigious press Hiperión, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's FROM A RED BARN is a compelling companion work and follow-up to the critically acclaimed TASKS, published by co-im-press in 2016. In this book-length sequence spanning seven sections of eleven poems each, Rodríguez Núñez reaffirms his stature as a globally engaged poet, by turns capably blending colloquial lyricism with an innovative compositional style that opens poems to a plurality of meaning-making and turns formal conventions inside out, fostering his vital and ongoing interrogation of how identity is actualized in the liminal space between homelands, ideologies, and hegemonic expectations. From this blending, a poetry of resistance emerges, ever at odds with imperialism, neocolonialism, racism, and xenophobia, while challenging and rethinking prevailing notions of otherness. Drawing on her extensive history translating the most revered Latin American poets, Katherine M. Hedeen transports FROM A RED BARN to English with a rich, artful translation that epitomizes her two decades mapping the trajectories of Rodríguez Núñez's substantial oeuvre. "Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's poetry represents a profound renewal of poetic language. It forces us to see that poetry accounts for itself precisely because it accounts for the world."--Raúl Zurita "FROM A RED BARN is simultaneously bodily and abstract, tender and brutal, bucolic and geographic, mnemonic and exilic. Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's syllable-driven rhythmic syntax and what the brilliant translator Katherine M. Hedeen refers to as 'the fluidity of the poetic subject and the plurality of meaning' decenter and defy subjectivity that's tied to the dominant global order of national, ideological, stereotypical identities. from a red barn speaks one of multiple and multiplying languages of the diasporic selves and worlds. Its voice is solely entwined with translation-tongue, the ultimate language of destabilization, amplified by Hedeen's powerful translation."--Don Mee Choi "Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is one of the greatest living poets I know and FROM A RED BARN is his magnum opus. Here, he reconfirms his position as a global poet, one who is able to sweep us from his homeland of Cuba to the farms of the American Midwest, back and across the world. Read then read again this vibrant and open mythogeography where language is tempered by staggering traversals between time and place. This is an exilic poetics on the move. Cleverly evading mere nostalgia, it prefers to activate what is felt organically through physical space, through mind and body. This is a poet operating at the height of his range, linguistically rich, both ludic and vatic. And the poems sing beautifully in English, a testament to Katherine M. Hedeen, whose immersion into Rodríguez Núñez's aesthetic is absolute and collaborative, an extraordinary act of sensitivity and extra-linguistic perception. FROM A RED BARN is a brilliant and deeply illuminating book. There is such nourishment here."--James Byrne "The imagination of this Cuban, this true poet...stains the darkness of these times with a red squirrel guided by the light... Víctor Rodríguez Núñez doesn't wait for the arrival of anyone because he was baptized by poetry at birth."--Juan Gelman

How long is From a Red Barn?

From a Red Barn by Victor Rodriguez is 190 pages long, and a total of 47,500 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From a Red Barn Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 19 minutes to read From a Red Barn aloud.

What Reading Level is From a Red Barn?

From a Red Barn is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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