How Long to Read The Shell of the Tortoise

By Don McKay

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shell of the Tortoise?

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Description

Don McKay is back from another geopoetic field season and has typed up his notes. The resulting essays continue his investigation into the relationship between poetry and wilderness, particularly into the characteristics of metaphor as a tool. "Art occurs whenever a tool attempts to metamorphose into an animal" asserts McKay in an essay on the myth of Hermes and his tortoise-shell lyre. He also takes us to the fossil beds of Newfoundland’s Mistaken Point to consider the fault line between scientific rigour and the poetic capacity for astonishment; over a buggy, boggy portage with Duncan Campbell Scott, surveying Canadian poetry's complex relationship with wilderness; to the imagined film set of From Here to Infinity to reflect on metaphor’s success in communicating the vastness of deep time, vastness which raw data fails to transmit; and into the Muskwa Assemblage, a poetic landscape which models his assertion that "In poetry, there is no 'been there, done that'; everything is wilderness."

How long is The Shell of the Tortoise?

The Shell of the Tortoise by Don McKay is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read The Shell of the Tortoise Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read The Shell of the Tortoise aloud.

What Reading Level is The Shell of the Tortoise?

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