How Long to Read Sound of Wave in Channel

How Long Does it Take to Read Sound of Wave in Channel?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 36 minutes to read Sound of Wave in Channel by Stephen Ratcliffe

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

Description

Poetry. California Interest. Book 1 of a two-volume set. "In Stephen Ratcliffe's SOUND OF WAVE IN CHANNEL, constant difference meets constant sameness. The result is a sublime evanescence, where the daily practice of poetry becomes a means of making palpable the immanent transcendence that Dickinson called 'Finite infinity.'"--Charles Bernstein "Here's a new music of greatest subtlety where the poems' musicality is not due only to their sounds but to their structure. The use of repetitions with minute variations goes beyond its equivalence in contemporary american music, and achieves the hypnotic power that we find only in the best renditions of, for example, classical persian melodies. Steve Ratcliffe has taken his poetic researches into highest territory by instinctively managing to assemble his modules--or short verses, in ways strategically controlled and still seamlessly and hauntingly beautiful. His mythical ridge has become the earth's curvature, as well as a space platform, where energies shift, turn and return, to create a 'mega-poem' of cosmic intention."--Etel Adnan "Stephen Ratcliffe is an ethnologist of the present. SOUND OF WAVE IN CHANNEL, his extended aubade for Bolinas, shows us the difference in what stays the same in the incremental changes of weather, water, light, and sound. It is a book in which nothing happens, yet everything is in motion--'everywhere a point of // difference.' In these nine-line poems written daily over a period of years, he fuses his mobile sensoria with the natural world: light coming into sky, sound of wave in channel--the primordial phenomena of life at the littoral. And in the perception of events unfolding in this landscape and soundscape there is also a subtext that asserts the value of the present instance in a world devoted to the pursuit of deferred happiness. Ratcliffe's patient act of watching restores us to what is most familiar, and in so doing discovers that 'somewhere called 'HERE I AM.'"--Michael Davidson "Planet, sky, light. The plane of a ridge shadowed or still black. The channel and the sound of wave in channel. Attending day after day to perceptions of things of the world that flicker and move on--a 'golden-crowned sparrow's oh dear,' a 'jet passing above the pine branch'--Ratcliffe's poem holds space for the non-human, reveals consciousness to be sparks thrown off by arcs of sound and sight. Between the channel and sun rising over the ridge nothing and everything is present. A meditation that returns us to the world, to breath and to word, such staying-with affords a much-needed practice--resistance in our time of egotistical ravaging of the Earth."--Karla Kelsey

How long is Sound of Wave in Channel?

Sound of Wave in Channel by Stephen Ratcliffe is 512 pages long, and a total of 129,024 words.

This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sound of Wave in Channel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 45 minutes to read Sound of Wave in Channel aloud.

What Reading Level is Sound of Wave in Channel?

Sound of Wave in Channel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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