How Long to Read Walking with Ghosts

How Long Does it Take to Read Walking with Ghosts?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 34 minutes to read Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill

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

Description

Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer, and mixed-race experience, Walking with Ghosts: Poems confronts the legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands while simultaneously resisting ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual /Transgender (GLBT) communities. The debut work of Qwo-Li Driskill, a young Cherokee poet also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ancestries, these poems move across Cherokee history. From the infamous Trail of Tears and the Allotment Act to the Indian boarding school system and contemporary manifestations of racism, these poems reach into Cherokee collective memory asking its readers to not only remember the history of colonization, but also the survival and continuance of Indigenous Nations. With this collection Driskill, who identifies as Queer as well as Two-Spirit (a contemporary term used in North American Indigenous communities to describe diverse sexual and gender identities) becomes one of only a few of American Indian Queer/Two-Spirit male writers in print. Refusing to compromise identities, Driskill also grapples with the impact of hate crimes on GLBT communities, multiracial and multi-tribal identity, the AIDS crisis, psychic trauma, and war. Yet the poems in this collection are rooted in a sense of love and the power of words to heal the legacies of colonization and other forms of violence. Cherokee love poems weave into eulogies to the dead while ghosts draw the living into a place of wholeness. Tender, startling, confrontational and erotic, this book honors the dead and brings the survivors back home.

How long is Walking with Ghosts?

Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill is 93 pages long, and a total of 23,529 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 29% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Walking with Ghosts Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 8 minutes to read Walking with Ghosts aloud.

What Reading Level is Walking with Ghosts?

Walking with Ghosts 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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