How Long to Read Something in the Air

How Long Does it Take to Read Something in the Air?

It takes the average reader to read Something in the Air by Tom Clark

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

Description

Poetry. The American poet/critic Bill Knott, speaking of Tom Clark's new work, has pointed to "the flow, the melodic momentum, the words in their intricate meaning(s), it's all done with such subtle touches, [the poet] in perfect control of his technique." Clark writes of "how the film over words/Loses its toxic power in certain lights..." This new clearer, more candid illumination--from which "the skin of empire drifts off/Like a poison that's evaporated"--he would discover in the imagination of a pure poetic state of dream, reverie and play, emerging palpably out of the "slipstream blankness" of the empty canvas/page and out of the things of an immediate human and natural world. A poet of original vision and gentle, careful word-shaping, Clark allows his images to merge and converge toward a resolution in which flow is not arrested but pauses to take thought; the images take over the controls and "do the talking," almost as if they had a mind of their own. What a relief when that happens, the poet confesses; he just follows along and tries to stay out of the way of whatever it is they seem to want to be saying. And when the elements of image and sound and sense do then mysteriously come together in the moment, as Clark here proposes, "A point is fixed..."

How long is Something in the Air?

Something in the Air by Tom Clark is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Something in the Air Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Something in the Air aloud.

What Reading Level is Something in the Air?

Something in the Air is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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