It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read The Iron Key: Poems by James Longenbach
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this collection, a painful acknowledgment of loss fuels a dream of abundance, and to embrace deprivation is to feel the promise of everything still to come: the poem to be written, the friend to be mourned, the child to be loved. Throughout The Iron Key the city of Venice stands for this promise, at once fragile and magnificent, but the poems themselves take place in upstate New York or suburban New Jersey, in the dead of winter and in a country perpetually at war. Again and again, out of unpropitious circumstances, The Iron Key brings us to the oldest threshold, the door that opens onto...
The Iron Key: Poems by James Longenbach is 89 pages long, and a total of 23,051 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 5 minutes to read The Iron Key: Poems aloud.
The Iron Key: Poems is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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