It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this acclaimed poetry volume, the Pulitzer and National Book Award–winner explores lifelong love and the invisible boundary between life and death. Over his long and prolific career, Galway Kinnell established himself as one of America’s greatest and most popular poets. In 2006, after a decade-long pause in creative output, he delivered what would become one of his last and most celebrated collections, Strong Is Your Hold. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this collection, Kinnell gives us...
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell is 81 pages long, and a total of 20,331 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read Strong Is Your Hold aloud.
Strong Is Your Hold is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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