It takes the average reader 1 hour and 25 minutes to read The Shape of Emptiness by Regina O'Melveny
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The lyric poems that compose the three parts of The Shape of Emptiness, while each distinct, work in concert like the near invisible lines of an orb-weaver who tacks her continuous silk to the spokes of a web, beginning at the center, spiraling ever outward and then returning to center again. At the outset the poems explore the poet's core relationship with her father and his haunting absence. Then they touch upon the tragedy of suicide and her mother's troubled mind and heart. A hunger for connection runs through all the poems informed by the meditations and urgencies of the soul. In the...
The Shape of Emptiness by Regina O'Melveny 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.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 56 minutes to read The Shape of Emptiness aloud.
The Shape of Emptiness is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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