It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read Sky and Island Light by Brendan Galvin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This stunning collection presents locales ranging from Ireland to the Outer Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetland Islands, and the poet’s native Cape Cod. In line after line Brendan Galvin evokes the physical world with a naturalist’s eye, dazzlingly apparent in the brushstrokes by which he depicts a gull sliding “on a crawl of heat among exposed hummocks” or white birches standing “like hairline / faults of frost / driven through stone.” In all this seething life, in this world of light and shadows, Galvin suggests a web of sensibility. Cemeteries, deserted villages, lost faces—such fragments...
Sky and Island Light by Brendan Galvin is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.
This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read Sky and Island Light aloud.
Sky and Island Light is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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