How Long to Read The Sound of Listening

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sound of Listening?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read The Sound of Listening by Philip Metres

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

Description

Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communities of solitude and solidarity. Gathering a decade of his writing on poetry, he widens our sense of poetry as a way of being in the world, proposing that poems can offer a permeability to marginalized voices and a shelter from the imperial noise and despair that can silence us. The Sound of Listening ranges between expansive surveys of the poetry of 9/11, Arab American poetry, documentary poetry,...

How long is The Sound of Listening?

The Sound of Listening by Philip Metres is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sound of Listening Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read The Sound of Listening aloud.

What Reading Level is The Sound of Listening?

The Sound of Listening 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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