It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Hammer Is the Prayer by Christian Wiman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A visionary selection from one of America’s foremost poets One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his “daring and urgent” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, My Bright Abyss, he asks, “What is poetry’s role when the world is burning?” Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems might be read as an answer to that question. From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold...
Hammer Is the Prayer by Christian Wiman is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Hammer Is the Prayer aloud.
Hammer Is the Prayer is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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