How Long to Read Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer

How Long Does it Take to Read Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer by Steve Scafidi

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

Description

Winner of the Levis Reading Prize "Tell me a story / of speed and tell it to me fast for the light is / gaining and I will wake and with this body / break the barrier between what I dream / and what my dreaming means." Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep to the edge of falling apart, take great delight in defying that dissolution, and come upon a thing redemptive and clarifying: the fact of love. In a world that "doesn't really care / whether we live or die," Steve Scafidi writes, "tell it you do and why." Against the harrowing fact of death, Scafidi celebrates dream and desire and the sweet erotics of springtime. Witnessing the budding of muscle trees, the nakedness of a lover, and the furious plowing of a river in the month of April amounts to a sensual equivalent of hope. And yet, the facts of history - from Troy to Rome to Montgomery, Alabama - arouse a great dread of our own cruelties. The truth of the South, the poems show, is often a brutal mix of ignorance and force that America learned from the great classical civilizations. From the unthinkable to the quietly heroic, somehow we have emerged. Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer celebrates that fact most of all.

How long is Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer?

Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer by Steve Scafidi 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer aloud.

What Reading Level is Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer?

Sparks from a Nine-pound Hammer is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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