How Long to Read Things I Didn't Do with This Body

How Long Does it Take to Read Things I Didn't Do with This Body?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read Things I Didn't Do with This Body by Amanda Gunn

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

Description

Told in six parts, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and forms—ragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-pill-induced-consciousness. Bedecked in Fenty and Shalimar, Amanda Gunn’s startling debut, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body, invites you to read with all of your senses and gives fresh meaning to the phrase a body of work. Told in six parts, this collection sings in myriad voices and forms—ragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-pill-induced-consciousness. Both tender and emotionally raw, these poems interweave explorations of family and interrogations of history, including an unforgettable sequence that meditates on the life of Harriet Tubman. With Tubman’s portrait perched above her writing desk, Gunn pens poems that migrate from South to North, from elegy to prayer, from borrowed shame to self-acceptance. Writing with frankness and honesty, Gunn finds no thought, no memory, too private: a father’s verbal blow, a tense visit to a gynecologist’s table, the longing to be “erased/by a taxi at 50 miles an hour,” and grief at the loss of two former lovers, decades apart. Death is familiar here, yet we find softness, grace, and hope in the culinary lessons learned in warm family kitchens, in the communal laughter of a rehab center’s common room, and in the rewards and pleasures of the fat erotic. With poems as malleable as the skin that “misplaced one hundred nine pounds” and filled it again, Gunn proves that, for the Black body, memory often presents the heaviest weight. Things I Didn’t Do with This Body is a reminder that “carried in the body is the future, the present, and the past.” The most capable thing a body can do is remember and bear it and live.

How long is Things I Didn't Do with This Body?

Things I Didn't Do with This Body by Amanda Gunn is 109 pages long, and a total of 28,231 words.

This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 35% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Things I Didn't Do with This Body Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read Things I Didn't Do with This Body aloud.

What Reading Level is Things I Didn't Do with This Body?

Things I Didn't Do with This Body 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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