How Long to Read Hers

How Long Does it Take to Read Hers?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Hers by Maria Laina

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

Description

In HERS, Maria Laina, one of Greece's most important living poets, taking inspiration from Sappho's women-centered past and Cavafy's homoerotic future, presents an ascetic yet autoerotic treatise on of love at odds with societal norms. "In these still lifes of the interior, Maria is between worlds. Somewhere between the self and the mirror, the real and the invented, the dead and the living, etched in the color of charcoal. Who is sketching this life and who is watching it being sketched, and who is watching it being lived? These poems report back on what goes on in the spaces between. Sometimes the drawing goes outside the lines. Sometimes the beauty and simplicity of the movements is overwhelming in the most voluptuous way. A swarm of voices passes over you. You know everything and nothing. You 'gently chase the memory from [your] mouth.' Read these poems."--Eleni Sikelianos "One of the important voices of the 'Generation of the 70s,' a generation of Greek poets born into a war-ravaged Greece, and who came of literary age under the Junta (and a generation remarkable for prominent women poets) Maria Laina and her poetry remain under-appreciated and underrepresented in English. HERS is a book at once abstract and grounded, elusively cerebral and erotically charged, like flashes of images in splinters of a broken mirror, a minimalism that reflects and refracts. The surface simplicity of these poems arguably make them all the more difficult to render into English, but Karen Van Dyck has deftly brought them into a transparent idiom that lets their mystery shine through."--A. E. Stallings Poetry. Translation. Women's Studies.

How long is Hers?

Hers by Maria Laina is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hers Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Hers aloud.

What Reading Level is Hers?

Hers 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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