How Long to Read Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems by Martín Espada

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

Description

Award-winning poet Martín Espada gives voice to the spirit of endurance in the face of loss. In this powerful new collection of poems, Martín Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed,” a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour workday. At the heart of this volume is a series of ten poems about the death of the poet’s father. “El Moriviví” uses the metaphor of a plant that grows in Puerto Rico to celebrate the many lives of Frank Espada, community organizer, civil rights activist, and documentary photographer, from a jailhouse in Mississippi to the streets of Brooklyn. The son lyrically imagines his father’s return to a bay in Puerto Rico: “May the water glow blue as a hyacinth in your hands.” Other poems confront collective grief in the wake of the killings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and police violence against people of color: “Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World” urges us to “melt the bullets into bells.” Yet the poet also revels in the absurd, recalling his dubious career as a Shakespearean “actor,” finding madness and tenderness in the crowd at Fenway Park. In exquisitely wrought images, Espada’s poems show us the faces of Whitman’s “numberless unknown heroes.”

How long is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems?

Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems by Martín Espada is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems?

Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems 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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