It takes the average reader 1 hour and 29 minutes to read Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Translation The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things movelanguorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they create an audacious new architecture of meaning. Nicole Brossard, one of the world's foremost literary innovators, is known for her experiments with language and her groundbreaking treatment of desire and gender. This dextrous translation by the award-winning poets and translators Erin Moure and Robert Majzels brings into English, with great verve and sensitivity, Brossard's remarkable syntax and sensuality. '[Brossard's] use of elliptical formulations and syntactical hijackings creates tensions between the image and the statement that result in a style that is unmistakably hers.' - La Presse 'A new work by Brossard is an event ... Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon is not merely experimental. It's radical.' - The Globe and Mail
Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard is 87 pages long, and a total of 22,359 words.
This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Notebook of Roses and Civilization aloud.
Notebook of Roses and Civilization is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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