How Long to Read This Is Not about Birds

How Long Does it Take to Read This Is Not about Birds?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read This Is Not about Birds by Nick Ripatrazone

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

Description

"From Minnesota to Barcelona, garage sales to a farmers market, Nick Ripatrazone's poems say what we miss the chance to say in our daily lives-history teacher, I know your secrets; fisherman, they'll return; bird, I see you. These poems offer instructions on how to remove a hook from a trout's mouth, remedies for rattlesnake bites, and the language we might need to heal each other. "Trust my words" Ripatrazone writes. Quit your tents and pray. God hears us best where the snakes still threaten. " -- Traci Brimhall/ "A variety of precisions interlock in Nick Ripatrazone's This Is Not About Birds. His diction is shard-sharp, his sense of line finely honed-but what strikes most is sentiment's curious edge, merciless and merciful at once. Ripatrazone writes poems that work back to one of poetry's most romantic purposes: to give value to those people on the periphery, to objects discarded, to the detritus of memory and childhood. Here is a poet who knows a poetry of the common cannot be a common poetry, and here are poems whose various precisions are a form of taking care of what, and who, fills them. " -- Dan Beachy-Quick / "Nick Ripatrazone's This Is Not About Birds reinvents Americana as not just an artifact, but an ecosystem both delicate and forceful. These poems are haunted by the presence of vacant spaces and their former inhabitants, by relics of past lives and glimmering moments of potential, some realized, some vanished. Ripatrazone pays homage to predator and prey, to the town and its most humble inhabitants, with a compassionate eye that captures the ordinary and the sublime." -- Mary Biddinger / "Nick Ripatrazone charms with his playful imagery but terrifies with his rich vision and remarkable discoveries skimming just beneath the surface of these very fine poems. Every line guides the reader forward with a palpable tension and an exquisite attention to what memories may hold, "savor[ing] the sounds like good caramel." In This Is Not About Birds, you're sure to find a wealth of spirit in these poems that capture the often surprising mappings of mind, body, and history." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil

How long is This Is Not about Birds?

This Is Not about Birds by Nick Ripatrazone is 88 pages long, and a total of 22,704 words.

This makes it 30% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read This Is Not about Birds Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 4 minutes to read This Is Not about Birds aloud.

What Reading Level is This Is Not about Birds?

This Is Not about Birds 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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