How Long to Read The Law of Falling Bodies

How Long Does it Take to Read The Law of Falling Bodies?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 50 minutes to read The Law of Falling Bodies by Elton Glaser

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

Description

The hard center of The Law of Falling Bodies bears down on the twin enmities of pain and loss. But the book ranges over a broad field, with poems covering everything from the inundations of summer rain ("It's like living in the spit valve of a big trombone") to a lovesick drunk listening to Patsy Cline ("My drink's on the rocks, and I am, too.") Glaser begins with the quirks and revelations of nature, shifts to those difficult adjustments we make as the body breaks down, modulates to a series of scenes imbued with music, and ends on an elegiac note in memory of his late wife ("Grief follows me like a dog behind the butcher's truck"). Along the way, the poems touch on a restless scale of tones, as light as the indignant comedy of "It Ain't the Heat, It's the Stupidity" and as heartbreakingly dark as "Autopsy." At the core is the constant interplay of an agile mind and rich language--what Ezra Pound called "the dance of the intellect among words"--always feeling out what it is to be human. The Law of Falling Bodies is part of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry series, edited by Enid Shomer.

How long is The Law of Falling Bodies?

The Law of Falling Bodies by Elton Glaser is 110 pages long, and a total of 27,500 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 Law of Falling Bodies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 30 minutes to read The Law of Falling Bodies aloud.

What Reading Level is The Law of Falling Bodies?

The Law of Falling Bodies 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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