How Long to Read Holy Winter

How Long Does it Take to Read Holy Winter?

It takes the average reader to read Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova

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

Description

A deeply moving poem about winter and exile, war and the pandemic from “Russia’s greatest living poet” (Poetry) and the acclaimed author of In Memory of Memory The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova’s 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor—the world had withdrawn from her, time had “gone numb.” When she awoke from this state, she began to read Ovid, and the shock of the pandemic dissolved into the voices and metaphors of a transformative, epochal experience. Her book-length poem Holy Winter, written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, speaks of winter and war, of banishment and exile, of social isolation and existential abandonment. Stepanova finds sublime imagery for the process of falling silent, interweaving love letters and travelogues, Chinese verse and Danish fairy tales, into a polyphonic evocation of frozen time, and its slow thawing. Maria Stepanova—as poet and essayist—was a highly influential figure for many years in Moscow’s cosmopolitan literary scene until it was suppressed along with civil liberties and dissent under Putin’s latter-day reign of terror. Like Joseph Brodsky before her, she has mastered modern poetry’s rich repertoire of forms and moves effortlessly between the linguistic and traditional spaces of Russian, European, and transatlantic literature. Her poetry, which here echoes verses by Pushkin and Lermontov, Mandelstam and Tsvetaeva, is not hermetic. She takes in and incorporates the confusing signals from social networks and the media, opening herself up to the voices of kindred poets like Sylvia Plath, Inger Christensen, and Anne Carson.

How long is Holy Winter?

Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Holy Winter Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Holy Winter aloud.

What Reading Level is Holy Winter?

Holy Winter is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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