How Long to Read Voyaging Out

How Long Does it Take to Read Voyaging Out?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Voyaging Out by Peter Abbs

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

Description

Voyaging Out is the tenth volume of Peter Abbs’ poetry.His new book divides into two parts. The first half, Peregrinations, offers an anthology of poems which range from the experience of love to memories of childhood, from philosophical reflections on art and poetry to the dramatic re-telling of other lives. There are poems here about Nietzsche as a schoolboy, the public death of Pope John Paul the Second and of the painter Pierre Bonnard’s erotic obsession with Martha.One of the new themes is travel: an affirmation of the place of voyaging, both further out into the world and further inwards into the distracted soul. In these poems, celebrating a movement south, ‘peregrine flights’ become metaphors for a deep inner pilgrimage.The second part, Transformations, offers three sequences from three great poets in the tradition: Rumi, Dante and Rilke. These poems are not literal translations but work in the manner of metamorphoses.Transformations is a new departure in the poet’s work. The aim is to convert the original poems into contemporary English and, in the case of the Dante sequence, into contemporary political and ecological contexts. Their purpose is to keep faith with the encompassing spirit of these seminal writers, to bring them forcibly into the modern imagination and, in so doing, to keep alive a conversation with the past.It’s hard for us to grasp transcendence —even Orpheus shrinks from the hourwhen he moves swiftly beyond us.Yet when his hand slips from the familiar lyrethere’s no subterfuge and nothing’s superfluous.Imagination vaults to its freedom.

How long is Voyaging Out?

Voyaging Out by Peter Abbs 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read Voyaging Out Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Voyaging Out aloud.

What Reading Level is Voyaging Out?

Voyaging Out is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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