It takes the average reader 1 hour and 44 minutes to read Midland by Kwame Dawes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, England, and the American South. Marked equally by a lushness of imagery, an urgency of tone, and a muscular rhythm, Midland, in the words of the final judge, Eavan Boland, is “a powerful testament of the complexity, pain, and enrichment of inheritance...It is a compelling...
Midland by Kwame Dawes is 103 pages long, and a total of 26,059 words.
This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 22 minutes to read Midland aloud.
Midland is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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