How Long to Read The Sanctity of the Moment

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sanctity of the Moment?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read The Sanctity of the Moment by Heather Tosteson

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

Description

This powerful collection of poems spans the major stages of a woman's life-adolescence, early marriage and divorce, single motherhood, family life and its dissolution, late love, encroaching mortality, and the mysterious, obsessive, and ultimately healing returns of early trauma-and does so with an equally tenacious sense of the sanctity of this moment, and this one alone, in all its redeeming particulars. We want to know, writes the poet, what is pushing us, what is drawing us, and what is letting us, time and time, and time again, go. . .There can be no other poet like Heather Tosteson, no other who strives so genuinely to take so much into account. She sees every one of us in this world holding/. . .an enormous universe of feeling, and her lines do not describe this universe but mesh with it. She does not witness the world, she bears it. Hers is the grandest and most honorable ambition, to render without violation life's silky, staining patina. What an immense revelation The Sanctity of the Moment is! How admirable the revealer!-Fred Chappell, Shadow Box, Backsass, Family Gathering, Midquest, winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, T.S. Eliot Prize, and Aiken Taylor Award.The Sanctity of the Moment presents the haunting chronicle of a woman/ mother/daughter/lover confronting both the terrible and the beautiful. Dense, intense, and exquisitely formed, these poems, crafted by a brave and unflinching intelligence, teach us much about struggle, compassion and affirmation. There are hard truths contained within these pages-hard truths and unforgettable writing.-Kat Meads, Quizzing the DeadHeather Tosteson's poems elicit gasps of thankful recognition: I too have struggled with that anger, experienced that joy, felt that despair, known that sadness. Ms. Tosteson's poetic deconstruction of what it means to see the face of God is fearless. In the instant I finished reading The Sanctity of the Moment, I believed my life had meaning.-Toni Press-Coffman, playwright, Touch, Stand, We're Here to HelpHEATHER TOSTESON is the author of Visible Signs, God Speaks My Language, Can You? and Hearts as Big as Fists. She has published poetry extensively in literary magazines, received the Nation/Discovery prize in poetry and fellowships for poetry, fiction, and photography from MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA and Hambidge. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (UNC-Greensboro) and Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing(Ohio University).

How long is The Sanctity of the Moment?

The Sanctity of the Moment by Heather Tosteson is 242 pages long, and a total of 60,984 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sanctity of the Moment Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 33 minutes to read The Sanctity of the Moment aloud.

What Reading Level is The Sanctity of the Moment?

The Sanctity of the Moment 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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