How Long to Read The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 17 minutes to read The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems by John Frederick Nims

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

Description

As a preeminent modernist poet and translator of the classics, John Frederick Nims's work is an elegant fusion of contemporary sensibility with formalist experimentation. But form, for this writer of meditative verse, is only a helpmeet to the quintessential content of the poem, the meaning that gives it value in our time and, one hopes, beyond. Concerning the formal elements of poetry, Nims comments: "One might say they are like the scaffolding at a construction site, meant to be thrown away and not regarded once the building is completed." In his newest collection, The Six-Cornered Snowflake, his poems range through an astonishing variety of complex structures: the shaped-poem of the title work, the sestina, the vocal "Pindar's lattice" of the "First Olympian Ode," the nervous galliambics of "Catullus 63"--just to name a few. As William Pritchard, writing for The New York Times Book Review, so aptly observed, "Mr. Nims has consistently had the nerve to be interested in what language could be made to do, rather than what the psyche would be made to reveal."

How long is The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems?

The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems by John Frederick Nims is 76 pages long, and a total of 19,456 words.

This makes it 26% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 46 minutes to read The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems?

The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems is suitable for students ages 8 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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