How Long to Read The Last House

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last House?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 51 minutes to read The Last House by Michael Kenyon

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

Description

Poems of disturbing beauty, examining personal and collective loss. This is Michael Kenyon’s third full-length collection of poems. His poetry and fiction have always been alert to the underside, the angularity of the outcast, those forced by temperament or predilection or circumstance to the fringes of middle class life. Here, it is insight itself that pushes the speakers closer to the edge. The world of these poems is dark: Kenyon names and owns our clear cuts, our overpopulation, our fossil-fueled rush to oblivion, the violence embedded in sexuality. This is a book of expanded elegy, clear-eyed, unflinching, amid the wreckage of its loves. … It is useless to choose a direction: current must find us. At last we swim away from each other to make the storm less jealous, old stars freeze the water, earthquakes calve an island, and another me adores another you inland. — from “The Stars” Fiercely elegiac, jaggedly sexual, The Last House stands on the brink of devastation—personal, ancestral, cultural. There is transcendence here, but no redemption: it is too late. But this is also a book about love — protean, violent, perduring — love as the key to reality, even as it mystifies us or tears us apart. These are poems of deep and disturbing vision, sustained by electrifying honesty.

How long is The Last House?

The Last House by Michael Kenyon is 111 pages long, and a total of 27,861 words.

This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last House Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 32 minutes to read The Last House aloud.

What Reading Level is The Last House?

The Last House is suitable for students ages 10 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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