How Long to Read The Need to Hold Still

How Long Does it Take to Read The Need to Hold Still?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 25 minutes to read The Need to Hold Still by Lisel Mueller

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

Description

Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry An adventurer, Lisel Mueller pursues the protean possibilities of communication. In Dreiser’s works she finds language solid, “as plain as money, / a workable means of exchange.” More often she experiences exhilaration in the shapes that communication makes possible. In “Talking with Helen,” for example, she re-creates Heller Keller’s flash of discovery when water suddenly became language, the stream that connected time and space, maple leaves and hands. Mueller’s poetry links varying forms: music and discourse, memory and immediacy. Perennial weeds in her title poem recall ancient times and prayerful monks. Musical names—“Teasel / yarrow / goldenrod / wheat / bed straw”—hold the moment still like the echoes of a tolling bell. “I’m trying to make connections,” Lisel Mueller says of her poems, “looking for links between where we have been and where we are going, between the life outside and the life within.”

How long is The Need to Hold Still?

The Need to Hold Still by Lisel Mueller is 84 pages long, and a total of 21,336 words.

This makes it 28% the length of the average book. It also has 26% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Need to Hold Still Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 56 minutes to read The Need to Hold Still aloud.

What Reading Level is The Need to Hold Still?

The Need to Hold Still 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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