How Long to Read Take and Receive

How Long Does it Take to Read Take and Receive?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read Take and Receive by Joyce Wilson

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

Description

The poems in Joyce Wilson's Take and Receive combine a remarkable clarity of insight with a honed sense of the possibilities inherent in formal verse. In "The Entry of the God," a poem about married life, the perfect iambic line "We bought a house that no one else would want" offers a sudden, sure look at the couple in question, united in choosing what has been overlooked, in finding their own way. With geographies as close as the poet's own garden and as far away as Egypt, Wilson immerses the reader in the things she has seen and lived. This collection is - to borrow a phrase from her title poem - a "tonic against grief," bracing and brave. - Jennifer Barber, author of Works on Paper A variation on the phrase "give and take," Joyce Wilson's Take and Receive, at first, appears to be about gender dynamics, but it is ultimately about the nature of power and perception. In addition to being a master formal poet, a scholar, and an editor, Joyce Wilson is a gardener. She knows the overarching plot there. Wilson is someone who gives and receives, but also takes. There is a paradoxical reason we like the predatory stories, as in her award-winning poem "The Speckled Hawk," which suggests "That might explain divisions in her ways -- / The softest down, the sharpest knife, / The fierceness in the cry that she betrays." In daily life, most of our challenges are more subtle, and that's why we need Joyce Wilson, with her sense of pattern and skill: and her memorable, wise voice. - Kim Bridgford, author of A Crown for Ted and Sylvia Praise for The Springhouse: Like the springhouse that gives her collection its title, Joyce Wilson's work offers both bracing freshness and mystery. In her poems about animals and insects, she honors the beauty of the natural world; and in her moving poems about her sister, she acknowledges its pain. Wilson richly rewards her readers' attention by her own patient fidelity to her subjects. - Timothy Steele, author of Toward the Winter Solstice

How long is Take and Receive?

Take and Receive by Joyce Wilson is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Take and Receive Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read Take and Receive aloud.

What Reading Level is Take and Receive?

Take and Receive 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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