How Long to Read Lying In

How Long Does it Take to Read Lying In?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read Lying In by Elizabeth Metzger

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

Description

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. “All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self—into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in doing so is lost. New loss haunts new life, and life becomes “one or two lives.” The door is more valuable than the prize behind it. With ambivalence as well as deep feeling, Metzger wonders how a single body can be expected to hold both immense joy and immense mourning, profound longing and creeping numbness, when one so often overtakes the other. She plunges into the darkness inside—of the gloomy room, the inner body, the afterlife and the pre-language mind—and sends back “a searchlight across the underworld,” Eurydice in search of herself. Aching and contemplative, Lying In is an exquisite portrait of an in-between time—and of the person who emerges on the other side. “Isn’t it obvious how we’ve changed?”

How long is Lying In?

Lying In by Elizabeth Metzger is 90 pages long, and a total of 22,500 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lying In Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Lying In aloud.

What Reading Level is Lying In?

Lying In is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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