It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read Motherhouse by Kathleen Jesme
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Motherhouse, Kathleen Jesme takes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Jesme's poems, which investigate religious life in a convent in the 1960s, are assembled from many fragments: juxtapositions of place and time (childhood and novitiate), shifting scale (the minuteness of an "old beige comb from home," the boundlessness of a "three-axled God"), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional, the silent -- that which does not obey the rules of the light or submit to its boundaries.An intensely lyrical work, Motherhouse is a cloth...
Motherhouse by Kathleen Jesme is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 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 24 minutes to read Motherhouse aloud.
Motherhouse is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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