How Long to Read The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling by Robert Pinsky

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

Description

A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.

How long is The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling?

The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling by Robert Pinsky is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling aloud.

What Reading Level is The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling?

The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling is suitable for students ages 12 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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