How Long to Read Talking Back

How Long Does it Take to Read Talking Back?

It takes the average reader and 39 minutes to read Talking Back by Rebecca L'Bahy

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

Description

In Rebecca L'Bahy's capable hands, interrogating domesticity and "talking back" to its critics proves to be a delightful poetic enterprise. With memorable detail and accomplished diction and syntax, L'Bahy explores the emotionally complex business of parenting-while-working, of being the child of an aging parent as well as the parent of a young child, of vividly recalling her past as she lives dynamically in the present. The art of making poetry and the business of daily life complement and inform one another in this captivating collection. I couldn't put it down. -Martha Collins Talking Back marks the debut of a poet whose intensely wry, probing, and fearless work registers every nuance on the spectrum between rage and praise. In one poem, the rooster on the cornflakes box stares at her "from his one eye / like he wishes he could fly / off his cardboard world to someplace good." In another, as she orders a tuna sandwich, she envisions the death of the fish, the men "stabbing with picks, going for the eyes, / stabbing the eyes behind my eyes." Passionately diagnostic, rich in sonic and imaginative verve, attentive both to life's gravities and its graces, these are poems that know in a world so desperate for saving even a simple, humble poem needs to become "a hero, / to hunt down the most powerful image." Rebecca L'Bahy's poems never fail in that pursuit. -Daniel Tobin Rebecca L'Bahy's poems are like a very good dark rye: welcoming, solid, made of real ingredients, nutritious. She writes out of her life as a suburban mother, a working woman, a Jew, a family member, someone engaged with the world around her. I can't think of better poems about commuting and her poems about mothering are honest and moving. -Marge Piercy

How long is Talking Back?

Talking Back by Rebecca L'Bahy is 38 pages long, and a total of 9,804 words.

This makes it 13% the length of the average book. It also has 12% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Talking Back Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 53 minutes to read Talking Back aloud.

What Reading Level is Talking Back?

Talking Back 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.

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