How Long to Read How to Communicate: Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Communicate: Poems?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 40 minutes to read How to Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark

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

Description

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece” (Kaveh Akbar). Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the Braille slate to sensuous prose poems to incisive erasures that find new narratives in nineteenth-century poetry. Calling out the limitations of the literary canon, Clark includes pathbreaking translations from American Sign Language and Protactile, a language built on touch. How to Communicate embraces new linguistic possibilities that emanate from Clark’s unique perspective and his connection to an expanding, inclusive activist community. Amid the astonishing task of constructing a new canon, the poet reveals a radically commonplace life. He explores grief and the vagaries of family, celebrates the small delights of knitting and visiting a museum, and, once, encounters a ghost in a gas station. Counteracting the assumptions of the sighted and hearing world with humor and grace, Clark finds beauty in the revelations of communicating through touch: “All things living and dead cry out to me / when I touch them.” A rare work of transformation and necessary discovery, How to Communicate is a brilliant debut that insists on the power of poetry.

How long is How to Communicate: Poems?

How to Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark is 100 pages long, and a total of 25,000 words.

This makes it 34% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Communicate: Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 16 minutes to read How to Communicate: Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is How to Communicate: Poems?

How to Communicate: Poems 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.

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