It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
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A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls’ night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali’s conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to...
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems aloud.
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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