How Long to Read Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions

How Long Does it Take to Read Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 41 minutes to read Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions by David Silverstein

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

Description

David Silverstein was a well-liked and well-respected figure on the Anglophone poetry scene in Tokyo in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Having already published his first book in Israel before he arrived in Tokyo (Dazzled by Nothing, 1984), he published two more books in Japan: The Suspicious Sympathy of White in 1990, and Apparitions in 1991. Holder of a PhD in Child Psychology, he worked for many years in both Israel and Tokyo as a psychotherapist until his premature and entirely unexpected death of a heart-attack in the spring of 1992. Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions, edited and with an afterword by Paul Rossiter, reprints a substantial selection of poems from Silverstein's three books. His special forte was the prose poem, which he used in a virtuosic way to provide the reader with - among other things - portraits of strangers on trains, glimpses into the private lives of bricks, mossy walls, bread crumbs, and other inanimate objects, reflections on the relations between seer and seen, observations arising from walks in the streets of Tokyo, and explorations of fantasy and its limits. His writing is fast-moving, improvisatory, psychologically astute, often very funny, sometimes desolating in its awareness of the costs of solitude, but also capable of articulating moments of uncomplicated happiness.

How long is Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions?

Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions by David Silverstein is 98 pages long, and a total of 25,284 words.

This makes it 33% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 18 minutes to read Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions aloud.

What Reading Level is Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions?

Whispers, Sympathies, & Apparitions 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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