How Long to Read Jackknife

How Long Does it Take to Read Jackknife?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Jackknife by Jan Beatty

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

Description

In Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives to poems that straddle the page in fragments, to lines that sprawl with long lines of train tracks. Always landing in meaning, we are inside the body—not in a confessional voice, not autobiography—but arriving through the expanded, exploded image of many stories and genders. The new poems leap imagistically from the known world to the purely imagined, as in the voice in "Abortion with Gun Barrel": "I am the counselor,/there are cracks in the barrel...

How long is Jackknife?

Jackknife by Jan Beatty is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Jackknife Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Jackknife aloud.

What Reading Level is Jackknife?

Jackknife 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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