How Long to Read With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection

How Long Does it Take to Read With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection by Hilde Domin

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

Description

Not to tire / but to hold out your hand / gently / as to a bird / to the miracle This bilingual edition of the poems of Hilde Domin, an outstanding lyric poet of exile and return, brings her work to English-speaking readers for the first time. Hilde Domin fled Nazi Germany when, as a Jew, she was no longer safe there. For many years she lived in Italy and the Dominican Republic, where she encountered modernist currents in Italian and Spanish poetry. Returning permanently to Germany in the mid-1950s, she quickly found recognition as a poet of memory and reconciliation. For the rest of her long life she wrote and spoke in a tone poised between vulnerability and trust, on behalf of moral and civic values worth living for. As Sarah Kafatou writes in her Introduction, Domin “is always frugal: she reworks and transforms her repertoire of metaphors, images, themes, and ideas again and again, extending and refining, never explaining too much. Her lyric sensibility is concise, her syntax and vocabulary are simple and apt, her short lines break on the phrase, and she has an uncanny ability to hit the right note at exactly the right moment, according to the rhythm of the breath.” Domin writes of “people like us we among them,” providing a voice for victims of persecution everywhere. Today, with refugee populations on the move throughout the world and with rising intolerance and polarization, these poems of conscience, and of courage discovered in desperation, will speak directly to every reader.

How long is With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection?

With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection by Hilde Domin is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection aloud.

What Reading Level is With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection?

With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection is suitable for students ages 12 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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