How Long to Read This Naked Light

How Long Does it Take to Read This Naked Light?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 30 minutes to read This Naked Light by Paul Matthews

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

Description

The book has five movements: Conflagrations: The tongue is a fire, both for love and destruction. Habitations: How can we feel at home if our things don’t speak to us or we fail to inhabit our moments? Adorations: The women portrayed by Botticelli, Blake, Rembrandt and Vermeer step from their gilded frames and their light plays freely. Dedications: A handshake is a holy place. Words are made new in our attention to each other. Distillations: Dew gleams on oak leaves and the flanks of horses as the ‘I’ grows quiet. To speak the essential name of a thing is our peculiar pain and privilege. ….The book ends with a quotation from William Carlos Williams: The government of words is our responsibility since it is of all governments the archetype. This is my urgent concern. Words can be hurtful and destructive, but in giving our loving attention to whoever we talk to we can heal our language and thereby enrich our communities and relationships. In ‘Adorations’ and ‘Dedications’ the poetry springs to life out of such a practice. Another concern is to do with how we perceive the things around us. Look up ‘thing’ in the dictionary, and you will find it means not just an object but an ‘assembly’. I like that. Each thing is a gathering place for memories, feelings and stories. Things and flowers speak to us through their gestures and colours. As for the animals, their appearance in the final pages of this book culminates in a letter to the poet William Blake regarding our responsibilities for their well-being.

How long is This Naked Light?

This Naked Light by Paul Matthews 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 Naked Light Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 4 minutes to read This Naked Light aloud.

What Reading Level is This Naked Light?

This Naked Light 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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