It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read The Moon Before Morning by W. S. Merwin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern American literature, he was United States Poet Laureate in 2010-11. The Moon Before Morning is a love letter composed in a stunning rush of memory. Answering the call set forth in The Shadow of Sirius (2009), which won him his second Pulitzer Prize, Merwin extends the emotional and intellectual reach of that collection with passionate reverence for the natural world, bittersweet reflection on...
The Moon Before Morning by W. S. Merwin is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read The Moon Before Morning aloud.
The Moon Before Morning is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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