It takes the average reader and 40 minutes to read Meridian by Kathleen Jesme
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Poetry. A meditation on the death of a mother, MERIDIAN measures the hours and reflects on how experience collapses and elongates time, creating a lens through which we can look at how we're connected and separated. And the poet asks: Is music our best refusal to accede to the irrationality of death? "I have long considered Kathleen Jesme a truly remarkable poet. In MERIDIAN, however, she outdoes herself. Jesme fills this lyric chronicle of the death of her mother with precise observations, strange silences, and breathtaking moments of beauty and music. Whether she dwells on the relentless...
Meridian by Kathleen Jesme is 40 pages long, and a total of 10,000 words.
This makes it 13% the length of the average book. It also has 12% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 54 minutes to read Meridian aloud.
Meridian is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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