It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this collection of poetry and essays, Gaspar de Alba incorporates the Mexican archetypal wailing woman who wanders in search of her lost children. La Llorona is more than an archetype: she is a tour guide through the ruins of love and family and the constant presence of the poet's voice. She transcends time, place, and gender. The lines of the poems breathe that haunted spirit as they describe her movidas, both geographic and figurative, in search of the lost mother, the absent father, the abandoned child, the lover, the self. These essays track other movements of thought: reflections on...
La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge by Alicia Gaspar de Alba is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.
This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge aloud.
La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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