It takes the average reader and 58 minutes to read Short Talks by Anne Carson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Poetry. In Anne Carson's SHORT TALKS the reader is bombarded with short prose poems that resound with the fullness of meditations on life: lyric sermons, riddle-poems that consist only of answers, Lou Reed meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen, the pure hilarious ache of ontology. SHORT TALKS, the first book-length collection by this accomplished, original voice, is elegiac, perceptive, and droll. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again. "The voice is laconic and composed but its images come off these pages resonant (more than resonant, shaking) with their own newness" -Don...
Short Talks by Anne Carson is 57 pages long, and a total of 14,649 words.
This makes it 19% the length of the average book. It also has 18% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Short Talks aloud.
Short Talks is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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