How Long to Read Starting at Basheer's

How Long Does it Take to Read Starting at Basheer's?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 32 minutes to read Starting at Basheer's by Ken Bolton

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

Description

Starting At Basheer's represents in part a determined 'tightening up' of the language and sentiment brought to the author's work. In this book the author responds to growing tensions and growing animosities felt in Australian society: bleakly reductivist withdrawals of sympathy, and of automatic goodwill, are tested, examined and worked around. The poems have unusual virtues in this respect: a kind of 'realism' in dealing with ideas, an exciting openness to the social world and the extension of an empathy that seems genuine because hard won. Even the most serious of these poems seems open, too, to playfulness & aesthetic opportunism--jokes, rapid shifts of direction and attention, allusions to popular culture and to literature and the visual arts. Starting At Basheer's is continuous with Ken Bolton's work in its themes and areas of interest--characterized by the poems' resolve to think through experiences, issues, social, ethical and aesthetic problems, using the lens of the everyday. At the same time the poems refuse to preclude any one register--high, low, or middling, the casual and the seriously proposed, the specialist and the amateur. At all times the 'Self', the 'citizen, is weighed and judged in the light of the imagined Other. Thoughtful--and yet forgetful, easily distracted, hardly there sometimes--Ken Bolton's is a lyrical figure limned against the harsh outlines, the stark colours, of the Adelaide art world, adding a word here, a thought there, in the general flux of words and deeds around town, and something of a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary scene, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smeared, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1957 Jaguar D-type, El Cid. Born in Sydney in 1949 he is associated with the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide where he ran the Dark Horsey bookshop & edited Little Esther books.

How long is Starting at Basheer's?

Starting at Basheer's by Ken Bolton is 148 pages long, and a total of 38,184 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Starting at Basheer's Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 28 minutes to read Starting at Basheer's aloud.

What Reading Level is Starting at Basheer's?

Starting at Basheer's is suitable for students ages 10 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.

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