How Long to Read The Blue Hour

How Long Does it Take to Read The Blue Hour?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 40 minutes to read The Blue Hour by Tamara Cashour

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

Description

Most of the poems in The Blue Hour would be considered my ?early? poems, written in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was trying to decide whether my career would be in music or poetry writing. There are a few poems excepted, written just over the last three years between 2001 and 2004: the poems Denouement, Heavy Cream, Communion and Journey, along with a few others, fall into this category. Many of the poems in this book are written in formal structural styles, such as the sonnets Alpine Harlequinade and Ravage, the syllabic poem The Taoist to the Swimmer (each line is exactly 9 syllables) and the quatrain versed, hidden end-rhyme poem, The Other Side. Quite a few of the poems here reflect the influence of the ?confessional? school of poetry, popularized by Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. I admire Ms. Sexton greatly for her feminist themed verse which depicts and acknowledges the desires and will of the female essentialist body as it reacts to its forced existence under patriarchal mores and within patriarchal-based texts. Feminist deconstruction of operatic texts and music was the basis of my master?s degree at New York University; it will be obvious that many of the poems in The Blue Hour are also feminist-themed, whether they be character studies of particular women or paeans to female courage and/or capacity for humor. Other poems deal with the time-honored subjects of love and loss, and still others are humorous ?ditty? style lyrics written to be set to music. The poem of the book?s title The Blue Hour is a love poem, but it is the hybrid villanelle Lessons that encapsulates the process of creation which for me defines the ?blue hour??that time?whatever hour of the day or night, and however torturous or ?flowing? it may be?when a work of art is being manifested by its creator. It has been the prime motivational force of my life.Compiling my early poems for The Blue Hour has inspired me to begin a second book of poetry, containing poems written from 2002 up to the present. When not writing poetry, my skills as a poet continue to serve me immeasurably well as a pianist-coach in the interpretation of poetic texts and prose lyrics set to music by our great composers of art song, opera and music theatre.

How long is The Blue Hour?

The Blue Hour by Tamara Cashour is 100 pages long, and a total of 25,000 words.

This makes it 34% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Blue Hour Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 16 minutes to read The Blue Hour aloud.

What Reading Level is The Blue Hour?

The Blue Hour is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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