It takes the average reader 1 hour and 25 minutes to read Salt Heart by Kate Hallett Dayton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Ostensibly a book of poems about sailing, islands, oceans, and, yes, salt, Kate Dayton's spare imagery conjures the tissue of lives that continue, day after day, in the midst of devastating losses. With a poet's sensitivity to how language can touch inner and outer worlds simultaneously, Dayton delivers a powerful rendering of experience that's as elemental as salt itself. References to the Apostle Islands abound, though the Great Salt Lake, the Salton Sea, and the Aegean also form the backdrop for reflections on the flight of birds, oil spills, and the tying of knots. Some of the descriptive...
Salt Heart by Kate Hallett Dayton is 84 pages long, and a total of 21,336 words.
This makes it 28% the length of the average book. It also has 26% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 56 minutes to read Salt Heart aloud.
Salt Heart is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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