How Long to Read The Lazarus Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lazarus Poems?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read The Lazarus Poems by Kamau Brathwaite

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

Description

A mystical masterwork This book by the great Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite is characteristically sui generis, vatic, and strange, exhibiting ornery bravura. Tonally and typographically frenetic in the 'sycorax video style' he's been employing for decades, the work examines a major theme appropriate to a great poet in the late stages of his career: that of the afterlife. Brathwaite performs a kind of spiritual/aesthetic GPS in his poetry and is is a poet of undeniable stature, writing the final poems of his career. Central to the book is a series of poems outlining the speaker's (the poet's) experiences with what he calls "Cultural Lynching." These poems speak of appropriation, theft, isolation, and exploitation, all within a context of an American hegemony that intensifies the racial politics and ageism underlying the events described. The speaker's pain and outrage are almost overwhelming. Filled with longing, rage, nostalgia, impotence, wisdom, and love, this book is moving in every sense of the word.

How long is The Lazarus Poems?

The Lazarus Poems by Kamau Brathwaite is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lazarus Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read The Lazarus Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lazarus Poems?

The Lazarus Poems 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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