How Long to Read The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher"

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher"?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher" by Charles Upton

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Description

When poet Jack Gilbert, some time in the 1970's in San Francisco, asked his poetry class, "Who here aspires to write a masterpiece?," not one hand was raised. I, on the other hand, wanted to do just that; after reading Blake's Prophetic Books for the first time, as a naive youth, I said to myself: "Wow! I'd like to write one of those!" So I tried my best; it took me thirty-three years.The idol of "street language" that entered my art in the 1970's was of no interest to me; I wanted to write in a dense, heightened, magical, poetic language such as ear of cabbie or bar-fly had never heard. I respect those poets who, like my mentor Lew Welch, can bring high poetic diction and "the common speech of the Tribe" seamlessly together; in many ways I like that kind of poetry better than I do my own. But I was given to write in a certain style, to fill in a certain blank square on the map of the English language, and so I complied. The Muse assigns styles as God assigns fates, and thus - to paraphrase the Hindu scriptures - "it is better to write one's own poetry, no matter how poorly, than to try and write somebody else's, no matter how well."Much of the poetry in this book hails from a collective psychic era of great and chaotic imaginative force, whose ruins we are in many ways still poking around in today, looking for shards, coins, and old photographs. It was written over a period of around 40 years; it's all the verse (apart from what appears in my books Panic Grass, Time Raid, and Doorkeeper of the Heart, and the few scattered poems in Hammering Hot Iron: A Spiritual Critique of Bly's Iron John; Findings in the Arts of Metaphysics, Cosmology and the Spiritual Path, and Shadow of the Rose: The Esoterism of the Romantic Tradition) that is really worth preserving. Not much of a harvest for a 40-year crop, a dearth which I believe is explained by the fact that I am basically not a poet but a metaphysician. And although it is rather short on "personal history," in reality it is my only autobiographical work - the story of the soul known as Charles Upton, or at least some of the more darkly idealistic aspects of it, which is one of the many, many souls God always knew He was going to create, with all its strengths, weaknesses, imbalances, and challenges. This book is the story of that soul's entry into and emergence from an essentially Neo-Pagan worldview, derived from the American counterculture, and its debarkation on the shores of a traditional sacred worldview and a living spiritual Path.

How long is The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher"?

The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher" by Charles Upton is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher" Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher" aloud.

What Reading Level is The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher"?

The Wars of Love and Other Poems, with "A Reader's Guide to The Wars of Love" and "Lew Welch As Teacher" 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.

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