How Long to Read Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems by Samuel Menashe

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

Description

Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Prize in 2004 and this volume was published in conjunction with that award. Born in New York City, Menashe practiced his art of "compression and crystallization" (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in poems that are brief in form but startlingly wide-ranging and profound in their engagement with ultimate questions. Dana Gioia has written: "Menashe is essentially a religious poet, though one without an orthodox creed. Nearly every poem he has ever published radiates a heightened religious awareness." Intensely musical and rigorously constructed, Menashe's poetry stands apart in its solitary meditative power. But it is equally a poetry of the everyday, suffused, in the words of Christopher Ricks, with "the courage of comedy, flanked by the respect of innocence." The humblest of objects, the minutest of natural forms here become powerfully suggestive, and even the shortest of the poems are spacious in the perspectives they open.

How long is Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems?

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems by Samuel Menashe is 200 pages long, and a total of 50,000 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 33 minutes to read Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems?

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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