How Long to Read Rowing Inland

How Long Does it Take to Read Rowing Inland?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Rowing Inland by Jim Daniels

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

Description

Rowing Inland, Jim Daniels’s fifteenth book of poetry is a time machine that takes the reader back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. With humor and empathy, the author looks at his own family’s challenges and those of the surrounding community where the legacy handed down from generation to generation is one of survival. The economic hits that this community has to endure create both an uncertainty about its future and a determined tenacity. Divided into four sections, Rowing Inland calls out key moments from the author’s life. The events that inspire many of these poems took place a long time ago and often it has taken the poet his entire life to write about those experiences and write about them with the necessary emotional distance. For example, some of the poems in the section “Late Invocation for Magic” reference the first girl he ever kissed and her accidental death by fire. In the last section of the book, Daniels approaches the current political and social standings in Detroit with lines like, “The distance to Baghdad or Kandahar / is measured in rowboat coffins / while here in the fatty palm of The Mitten / minor skirmishes electrify tedium.” Although it focuses on Detroit’s metropolitan area, the book can be considered a snapshot of working-class life anywhere across the country. Daniels casts his lens on a way of life that is often distorted or ignored by the powers that be. He zooms in on street level where all the houses may look alike but each holds its own secrets and dreams. To paraphrase novelist and screenwriter Richard Price, Detroit is the “zip code for [Daniels’s] heart”—a place that his writing will always come back to. Readers of contemporary poetry with a regional persuasion will enjoy this collection.

How long is Rowing Inland?

Rowing Inland by Jim Daniels is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rowing Inland Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Rowing Inland aloud.

What Reading Level is Rowing Inland?

Rowing Inland is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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