How Long to Read Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing

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

Description

Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing wrote poems filled with the jargon of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. Seeking out what he called “the new and complex harmonies . . . of a strange and still more complex age,” he evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerving fears. But, in the words of editor Robert Polito, “Fearing’s poems carry no whiff of the curio...

How long is Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems?

Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems?

Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems is suitable for students ages 12 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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