How Long to Read It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

How Long Does it Take to Read It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 28 minutes to read It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful by Lia Purpura

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

Description

A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura Lia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in this, her fourth collection, reach back to an early affinity for proverbs and riddles and the proto-poetry found in those forms. Taking on epic subjects--time and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of being--each poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or shock or revelation. Purpura reminds us that short poems, never...

How long is It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful?

It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful by Lia Purpura is 86 pages long, and a total of 22,016 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours to read It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful aloud.

What Reading Level is It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful?

It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful 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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