It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Thick and Dazzling Darkness by Peter O'Leary
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues in the work of contemporary writers to illuminate an often obscured but still central spiritual impulse that has shaped the...
Thick and Dazzling Darkness by Peter O'Leary is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.
This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Thick and Dazzling Darkness aloud.
Thick and Dazzling Darkness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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