How Long to Read The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales)?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales) by Juan Carlos Flores

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

Description

Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world. Flores's highly structured texts, organized into "art galleries," present prose paintings of a big place in very small form. Flores builds a poetic landscape with repeating structures that mirror Alamar's five-floor walkups. Exploring life and dream on the flat surfaces of the poems, he gives fleeting glimpses of perception and survival at the urban margins. As the poet ages, so ages Alamar itself. Yet both find renewal through poetry. The eighty poems in this bilingual edition offer the first English translation of a complete Flores collection. It will also be of interest to Spanish-language readers seeking access to Cuban literature abroad. Award-winning scholar and translator Kristin Dykstra has compiled an introduction in which she presents Flores, his literary contexts, and references in his poems. Because Flores made specific requests regarding translation, fascinating notes also clarify and expound on choices Dykstra makes in the English version. A deluxe edition with a handmade, limited-edition color linocut print, including a letterpress-printed poem signed by the author, is available directly from the University of Alabama Press.

How long is The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales)?

The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales) by Juan Carlos Flores is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales)?

The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (y Otros Poemas Horizontales) is suitable for students ages 12 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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