It takes the average reader 1 hour and 12 minutes to read Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics—his first book not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration becomes speed and song. Less embattled than earlier work, less actively violent, these new poems have, by conceding time's finalities and triumphs, acquired a dark radiance unlike anything seen before in Bidart's long career. Mortality—imminent, not theoretical—forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of...
Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart is 72 pages long, and a total of 18,144 words.
This makes it 24% the length of the average book. It also has 22% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 39 minutes to read Watching the Spring Festival aloud.
Watching the Spring Festival is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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