It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read The Smell of Life by Morty Sklar
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Inspired by the natural-voice aesthetics of the Iowa City Actualists (of which he was a seminal writer and editor), the Beats, and the New York Poets, Morty Sklar writes with humor, intimacy and original insight in this thirty-six-year collection of poems addressing everything from heroin addiction to honor, innocent joy to mortal resignation, loneliness to everlasting love. Morty's previous major collection, The Night We Stood Up For Our Rights: Poems 1969¿1975, was published by Toothpaste Press (now called Coffee House Press). His poetry has been anthologized in From A to Z: 200 Contemporary American Poets, edited by David Ray (New Letters /Swallow Press / Ohio University Press); A Poetry Anthology, edited by Robert Creeley (Des Moines Art Center); Brother Songs (Holy Cow! Press), and elsewhere. Among the many magazines in which his poetry has appeared, are New York Quarterly, Little Caesar, Mid-Atlantic Review, El Nahuatzen, Pearl, World Letter, New Letters¿ He dropped out of engineering studies in 1954 to volunteer for the 82nd Airborne. From 1960 to 1966, he was addicted to heroin, then helped establish Phoenix House therapeutic community in New York City, from which he graduated in 1969.
The Smell of Life by Morty Sklar is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.
This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read The Smell of Life aloud.
The Smell of Life is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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