How Long to Read Night & Day

How Long Does it Take to Read Night & Day?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 29 minutes to read Night & Day by P.J. Laska

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

Description

Laska has written works alternately described as bold and memorable and with a hair-raising comic vitality. Given the complexity of his occasionally dark, unabashedly political, philosophical and underground writings, he [can be described] as an Appalachian Fyodor Dostoyevsky. --Jeff Biggers, Contributing Editor to The Bloomsbury Review Eschewing conventional poetic fashion, Laskas engaging collection of over three decades of writings in the shadow of corporate domination is a sweeping poetic and prosaic, lyrical and anti-lyrical assemblage of thought-provoking epigrams, puns, and philosophical dialogues, together with voices and vignettes of a by-passed America. From the stripped-mined hills and hollows of Appalachia to the banal debris of urban streets, his work unfolds, with respectful understatement, the on-going global desecration of inner and outer life. With patient yet alarmed urgency he brings to the surface an ecological counter-tradition whose contours trace back as far as the ancient Chinese Dao De Jing. -- Csaba Polony, Editor, Left Curve NIGHT & DAY is an iconoclastic 35 year poetic chronicle of Americas OCD. With a smiling grimace the author journeys to the psychological interior of the Homeland, sees through the nations repetition compulsion and self-protective historical amnesia, and returns with Zen-like epigrams, satires, dialogues, and a set of healing philosophical Maxims of Access. BOOK REVIEW: The Past Finds Its Way Home, September 23, 2010 By Sacramento Book Review "Sacramento Book Review" (Sacramento, CA) This review is from: Night & Day: A collection of poems (Paperback) by P. J. Laska "O the fabulous histories/of fleeting things remain/each once and ever instant/ effervescent, like the faces/youll remember years hence/when the hills are mythic/fictions of the night sky--/a moon will rise in memory/over Morgantown,/ and youll be thinking/what if what if what if..." P.J. Laska `s collection of poems is a tour de force in the examination of a disappearing homeland, the governments gross and compulsive negligence, and the way back to a place of home through philosophical musings. Laska has portrayed a fertile landscape of a working-class citizenship; coal miners, janitors, salesmen across the rich diversities of the Appalachians. But it could be anywhere, anywhere there is history and the undying thirst to regain its story. //Night & Day// is a revolutionary documentary shaped by Laskas skill and free-thinking awareness. He has crafted this collection into three very distinct and thought-provoking sections, each lending a vivid picture created on a palette of carefully blended "anti-lyrics." His style reaches from haiku to epigrammatic dialogue to philosophical conversations to a one-act play. The different forms make for a seamless flow and keeps the reader engaged in an almost voyeuristic indulgence. The images are seen, felt, and experienced, "Quick-dipping/their heads, they/roll silvery drops/down their backs/then shimmy/the dust/from their wings." His eye for the senses is clearly evident, a profound craftsmanship on each page. The main theme points to loss and the restitution of a culture, a reinstatement of what has vanished, what has been taken, or rather, an intense look back at a sober lingering. The governments involvement is one of disdain, but what strikes me is the search for meaning through philosophical traditions, the hope for a return to nature, and what is whole from a place of drought. In many ways, these poems are odes and pieces of the subjects soul. This is a call, an invitation, to query. I accept.

How long is Night & Day?

Night & Day by P.J. Laska is 146 pages long, and a total of 37,376 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Night & Day Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Night & Day aloud.

What Reading Level is Night & Day?

Night & Day is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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