It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry* I have this rearrangement to make: symbolic death, my backward glance. The way the past is a kind of future leaning against the sporty hood. --from "Bugcatching at Twilight" In Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys - D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry - the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing beauty, singing a dirge, directing an ironic smile, or questioning who in any given setting is the instructor and who is the pupil. This is a book that explores the darker side...
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys aloud.
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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