It takes the average reader 1 hour and 28 minutes to read From Darkening Porches by Jo McDougall
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In just five lines, Jo McDougall can make you shudder. Her poems are often as stark and open as their settings - the Kansas plains and Southern bottomlands. But in these wide fields and hot kitchens, on these front porches where ordinary people tell their stories, the everyday becomes fabled, truth becomes hallowed. To C. D. Wright, McDougall writes "a lean, stoic line; each poem makes its mark, like spit". In those lines, McDougall brings to life farmers, dressmakers, widows, and waitresses with such precise clarity that we take part in the strange delights, the struggles, the tangled...
From Darkening Porches by Jo McDougall is 86 pages long, and a total of 22,016 words.
This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours to read From Darkening Porches aloud.
From Darkening Porches is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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