How Long to Read Some Words on Those Wars

How Long Does it Take to Read Some Words on Those Wars?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Some Words on Those Wars by John Matthias

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

Description

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. The wars at issue in SOME WORDS ON THOSE WARS are the two great World Wars. In 2020, John Matthias published a long selection of fiction and memoirs with Dos Madres called TALES TALL & SHORT. The present book is a kind of companion to that volume. In his preface, Matthias calls it a hybrid book because it contains both poetry and prose. One purpose is to contextualize as fully as possible a reprinting of both his long poem Kedging in Time (2007) and the essay engaging its history and allusions, 'Kedging in 'Kedging in Time.' The poem was written in large measure as a tribute to his wife's family, both sides of which produced British navy men ranging from midshipmen to admirals. Diana, Matthias's wife who died in 2020, sailed her own small boat on the Suffolk River Alde. That, too, is treated in the poem, and the book itself concludes with an edited version, with commentary, of Pamela Adams's The Iron Pier, in which she describes, as possibly the last living person to have witnessed it, the surrender of the German fleet at the end of World War I. Pamela was Diana's mother. Along with a group of shorter poems dealing directly or indirectly with the World Wars are four essays considering the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, David Jones's little-known work The Book of Balaam's Ass, the description of the first German gas attack in Malraux's The Walnut Trees of Altenburg, W. H. Auden's work following his immigration to the United States just before World War II, and Katherine Anne Porter's haunting short novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider, dealing with the postwar Spanish influenza, suddenly so newly relevant to us as a generation forced to live through our own pandemic.

How long is Some Words on Those Wars?

Some Words on Those Wars by John Matthias is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Some Words on Those Wars Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Some Words on Those Wars aloud.

What Reading Level is Some Words on Those Wars?

Some Words on Those Wars is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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