It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration by Alan Shapiro
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More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written. In this book, Shapiro brings his characteristic warmth, humor, and many years as both poet and teacher to bear on questions surrounding two preoccupations: the role of conventions—of literary and social norms—in how we fashion our identities on and off the page, and how suffering both requires and resists self-expression. He sketches affectionate...
That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration by Alan Shapiro is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration aloud.
That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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