How Long to Read The Switching/Yard

How Long Does it Take to Read The Switching/Yard?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read The Switching/Yard by Jan Beatty

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

Description

In Jan Beatty’s fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey—now becomes as scarred as the Rust Belt. What lives in our collective unconscious as the Golden West becomes almost surreal, as these poems snap that vision in half with extended description of ghost explorers. We see the open truck cab, the farm workers on the corner waiting for pick-up; we see the speaker returning west to find the long-abandoned story of the birthfather. There is no stable landscape here except the horizontal action of moving through. Landscape becomes story. In this extended tale of the idea of family, we find stand-ins for the father in the form of a hit man, Jim Morrison, and ultimately the unyielding road takes the place of the body. The Switching/Yard is at once the horizontal world of the birth table where babies are switched, the complex yard of the body where gender routinely shifts and switches, and the actual switching yard of the trains that run the inevitable tracks of this book.

How long is The Switching/Yard?

The Switching/Yard by Jan Beatty is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Switching/Yard Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read The Switching/Yard aloud.

What Reading Level is The Switching/Yard?

The Switching/Yard is suitable for students ages 10 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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Where Can I Buy The Switching/Yard?

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