How Long to Read Parting Glass

How Long Does it Take to Read Parting Glass?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read Parting Glass by Lisa J. Parker

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

Description

A toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. This item is Returnable Additional Information BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American | General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Women Authors INGRAM Categories: - Topical | Death/Dying - Sex & Gender | Feminine - Topical | Women's Interest Physical Info: 0.21" H x 9.0" L x 6.0" W (0.3 lbs) 86 pages Carton Quantity: 82 Number of Units in Package: 1 Worth Considering Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. Review Quotes: As haunting as the Irish ballad for which it is named, The Parting Glass is a book of searing elegies and unforgettable odes to moments of joy shared in tranquil places. Whole worlds emerge and collide in these poems, experiences as rich as the black bread offered by the Ukrainian neighbor to the "Hillbilly Transplant" in New York City. Many of us from Appalachia will relate to her fish-out-of-water adventures and heartbreaks, missing family back home but also feeling the electric thrill of subway rides and all-night restaurants. Lisa J. Parker has created a deep and nuanced book that would have made the late Arthur Smith proud, and I cannot imagine a more worthy first entry for the poetry award named in his honor. I have felt tears welling in the corners of my eyes more than once when I come to the lines, "the surreality of that meager box / with its pewter top, your name punched into it." The Parting Glass offers enormous heart and soul in the face of unbearable grief, survivable only through a sense of belonging to a place and its people and by committing to words those memories that affirm what we have lost.-Jesse Graves, author of Merciful Days and Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place Lisa Parker possesses the perceptive eye of a photographer and the truth-telling, visionary voice of a poet. From the orange trumpet vines and sycamore trees of northern Virginia to the "crushed velvet walls" of the Metropolitan Opera, each precise, wondrous image in The Parting Glass transports the reader. As Parker shows us how to look at these beautiful, sometimes broken, sometimes aching landscapes, she tells an important story about the places we call home, the terrible weight of grief, and love-always love.-Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star These are poems of loss, displacement, and deep grief, yet they are shot through with light, in particular the illumination that comes with beautiful writing. There is not one wasted word in this moving, intelligent, and timely collection of poems that stand perfectly on their own yet sing even louder as an entire gathering. The Parting Glass is a marvel of a book.-Silas House, New York Times bestselling author of Lark Ascending Publisher Marketing: The Parting Glass, like the old Irish song, is a toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. However Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. At its core, this book brings the thread of downhome with its voices and song, to the cities and cultures the author moves through. The poems raise a glass to those still at the table and to those already gone, to homecomings and deployments, to the navigation of love and grief. Contributor Bio:Parker, Lisa J Lisa Parker is a native Virginian, a poet, musician, and photographer. Her first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 ASA Weatherford Award and her work is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Her photography has been on exhibit in NYC and published in several arts journals and anthologies. She has worked in the Department of Defense for nearly twenty years, worked as a first responder for 15 years, and currently serves as a crisis and disaster response volunteer with Team Rubicon. Some of her work may be found at www.wheatpark.com. Email other people about this product detail Separate multiple addresses with semicolons. Mail to: Copy me on this email: Subject: Message: SendReset Qty 1 Add to Quick Order View/Edit Cart Ships when available * DC On Hand On Order TN This is your PRIMARY Distribution Center 89 0 IN This is your SECONDARY Distribution Center 0 0

How long is Parting Glass?

Parting Glass by Lisa J. Parker is 81 pages long, and a total of 20,331 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Parting Glass Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read Parting Glass aloud.

What Reading Level is Parting Glass?

Parting Glass is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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