How Long to Read Run the Red Lights

How Long Does it Take to Read Run the Red Lights?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read Run the Red Lights by Ed Skoog

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

Description

"Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water." —Boston Review "Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection." —Prairie Schooner "Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away." —The Stranger "Run the red lights" were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Ed Skoog's new book the poems are running all the lights, the way that talking casually runs and flows over itself and intertwines with what others are saying. These plainspoken poems rediscover the relationship between talking and thinking, as they weave among enthusiastic jags about sex and love, theater, music, New Orleans, numbness, ghosts, wolves, history, violence, rescue, art, marriage, mothers, fathers, and children. After Katrina, I took the diet where you eat meat, and lost almost a hundred pounds from a surfeit of bacon, sautéed pork medallions, beef & lamb. The weight fell away like a knight's armor after a joust. I bought shirts at a regular store. I played softball and ran bases, bounded them, as if on a new, more forgiving planet. And I went crazy, evened out, broke down again . . . Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and Ploughshares, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award and the Washington State Book Award. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

How long is Run the Red Lights?

Run the Red Lights by Ed Skoog is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Run the Red Lights Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read Run the Red Lights aloud.

What Reading Level is Run the Red Lights?

Run the Red Lights 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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