It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds by Orlando Ricardo Menes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures. Menes engages with the Catholic sacraments, saints' lives, and the artistic heritage of this universal faith as well as Cuban art through the use of a variety of poetic styles across the collection. An established poet, he pays homage to those writers who have made him the Caribbean poet that he is, specifically Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, and even Hart Crane. Readers will want to join Menes on this journey as he travels the globe to explore the fantastic and the marvelous while searching for faith and divine grace.
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds by Orlando Ricardo Menes is 92 pages long, and a total of 23,184 words.
This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 6 minutes to read The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds aloud.
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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