It takes the average reader 2 hours and 22 minutes to read It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time by Angela Jackson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Angela Jackson’s latest collection of poetry borrows its title from a lyric in Barbara Lewis’s 1963 hit single “Hello Stranger,” recorded at Chess Records in Chicago. Like the song, Jackson’s poems are a melodic ode to the African American experience, informed by both individual lives and community history, from the arrival of the first African slave in Virginia in 1619 to post-Obama America. It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time reflects the maturity of Jackson’s poetic vision. The Great Migration, the American South, and Chicago all serve as signposts, but it is the complexity of individual...
It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time by Angela Jackson is 138 pages long, and a total of 35,604 words.
This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 44% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 14 minutes to read It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time aloud.
It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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