How Long to Read What We Did While We Made More Guns

How Long Does it Take to Read What We Did While We Made More Guns?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read What We Did While We Made More Guns by Dorothy Barresi

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

Description

The poems in What We Did While We Made More Guns investigate the place where economic failure meets a widening acculturation of violence—a kind of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this spectacularly uneasy moment in American history. Cutting, comic, sorrowful, at times terrified, at times resolute, the poems tilt along the high cliff’s edge of identity anxiety and American moral uncertainty, where each of us plays our part in the business of dispossession or resistance. Building themselves out of jazzed-up verbal velocities and wounded (in)sincerity, the poems counsel resilience against all forms of battery, mortal, spiritual, financial. They are pattern-makers in the dark. They talk back to God. They take into themselves what cannot be taken back: the news that forty-six million Americans have “slipped” below the poverty line; that guns discharge monstrously banal virility; that a black woman pulled over for a routine traffic violation dies by strangulation in her jail cell; that we buy and sell the myth of the American Dream as though our lives depended on it.

How long is What We Did While We Made More Guns?

What We Did While We Made More Guns by Dorothy Barresi 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 What We Did While We Made More Guns Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read What We Did While We Made More Guns aloud.

What Reading Level is What We Did While We Made More Guns?

What We Did While We Made More Guns is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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