How Long to Read When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems?

It takes the average reader 2 hours to read When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems by A. Van Jordan

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

Description

A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence. In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award–winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays—Caliban and Sycorax from?The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from?Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of?Othello—to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century? Balancing anger and grief with celebration, Jordan employs an elastic variety of poetic forms, including ekphrastic sestinas inspired by the photography of Malick Sidibé, fictional dialogues, and his signature definition poems that break down the insidious power of words like “fair,” “suspect,” and “juvenile.” He invents a new form of window poems, based on a characterization exercise, to see Shakespeare’s Black characters in three dimensions, and finds contemporary parallels in the way these characters are othered, rendered at once undesirable and hypersexualized, a threat and a joke. At once a stunning inquiry into the roots of racist violence and a moving recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again expresses the preciousness and precarity of life.

How long is When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems?

When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems by A. Van Jordan is 117 pages long, and a total of 30,069 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 37% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 44 minutes to read When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems?

When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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