How Long to Read The Infernal Now

How Long Does it Take to Read The Infernal Now?

It takes the average reader and 39 minutes to read The Infernal Now by Arnold Johnston

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

Description

Arnold Johnston's The Infernal Now offers us poems that are acutely aware of mortality, counterbalanced by the timelessness of poetic forms, especially the sonnet, which he manages with flair. Johnston looks back "to the tacky apartment where I lived alone/On West Main Street, teaching sophomores how not to rhyme," while remaining attuned to the long-standing and present tense "true love of [his] life...The world in [his] arms." In this artful sequence of poems, despite the realities of aging, covid, and climate change, Johnston writes his way "to where 'end' is no verb, but just a noun," a fitting insight from a language-centered life. -Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets and Four-Legged Girl In The Infernal Now, Arnold Johnston puts on full display his strong sense of craft honed throughout his long, distinguished writing career. In his masterful sonnets, and in his other fine poems, Johnston looks at his colorful past and his own mortality with wistful humor and disarming honesty. A delightful collection. We should all be so clear-eyed and good-natured. -Jim Daniels, author of Gun/Shy and Birth Marks "I could give all to Time," says Robert Frost, "except-except/What I myself have held" The poems in Arnold Johnston's The Infernal Now explore this complication with humor, beauty, and grace; they puzzle over what's held dear and yet must be let go, and over how on earth we live with that. The passing of friends, hardships of aging, Covid, 9/11, loss, tugs at our successive nows-and yet the force of love, of hope, even of grief, provides a kind of shining forward toward whatever comes. -Nancy Eimers, author of Oz and A Grammar to Waking

How long is The Infernal Now?

The Infernal Now by Arnold Johnston 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 The Infernal Now Aloud?

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

What Reading Level is The Infernal Now?

The Infernal Now 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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