How Long to Read These Were My Homes

How Long Does it Take to Read These Were My Homes?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read These Were My Homes by Vijay Nambisan

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

Description

'Soaked in the Bible, in Sanskrit, in mid twentieth-century English poetry and his own lifelong reading habits, Vijay Nambisan was a great Indian poet who never received his due. His magisterial later poems are of a piece with the earliest, which is rare. It is infuriating that he is unknown to most Indians. This book is a treasure and a cathedral.'--JEET THAYIL 'In Vijay's intelligent, self-aware meditations on mortality and human folly in this final and complete volume of his poems, readers will come to as close an apprehension of the nature of epiphany as is possible--to those sudden illuminations of the spirit that can, without warning, light up flares in our dull, corporeal bodies. [The] 111 poems in this slender volume written over his brief lifetime...display...a keen understanding of science and its uncompromising rationality ("radium decays a little bit at a time"), of the temporary bonds of love and desire, of waddling ducks and arching cats, of the particular genealogies of speech that Vijay came to inherit through his father, his grandparents, his mother and aunts, and of the questing history of our bipedal species... In the title poem of this volume, "These Were My Homes," Vijay tracks a path from the safe womb to the single "bed in which to breathe my last of air." I can think of few poets who have better traversed that eternal arc.' --From the Introduction by Rukmini Bhaya Nair

How long is These Were My Homes?

These Were My Homes by Vijay Nambisan is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read These Were My Homes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read These Were My Homes aloud.

What Reading Level is These Were My Homes?

These Were My Homes 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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