It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read The Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the body; failures of science, art and technology; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal attempt to memoralize the lost. But the book also explores the necessity of such narratives, as well as the creative possibilities implicit within the “failed elegy,” all while examining the various ways that self-destruction can turn into self-preservation.
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal is 88 pages long, and a total of 22,704 words.
This makes it 30% 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 4 minutes to read The Invention of the Kaleidoscope aloud.
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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