It takes the average reader 1 hour and 11 minutes to read Soundings by Alana Sherman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
These poems sing about Alana Sherman’s fundamental passions— love, family, domesticity and the small messages of loss and mortality that confront us everyday—with honesty of vision and remarkable clarity of style. Her forte is careful meditation on events and experience. The eye, ear and mind energize a voice that plumbs the ordinary to present us with wonders. “I love the quiet beauty and sensuous imagery of Alana Sherman’s poems. They are delightful and, in their own graceful way reassuring.” Lorraine DeGennaro “With intense vitality, great compassion and exceptional attention to design, the poems in Soundings deal with the eternal verities of life. Carrying the reader straight to the heart of their matter, these are poems born out of the experience of the whole person. Sherman’s work is intelligent and satisfying.” Martin Anderson
Soundings by Alana Sherman is 69 pages long, and a total of 17,871 words.
This makes it 23% the length of the average book. It also has 22% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 37 minutes to read Soundings aloud.
Soundings is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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