It takes the average reader 3 hours and 17 minutes to read Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems by Ale Debeljak
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A major literary event, Without Anesthesia offers a generous selection of the poetry of acclaimed Slovenian writer-critic Ale Debeljak. It includes the entirety of two recent collections, Unended and Below the Waterline, which have never before been published in English, as well as significant selections from his first three collections, Anxious Moments, The City and the Child, and (in new translations) Dictionary of Silence. Writing through wars, genocide, and political upheaval, Debeljak is a poet of Slovenia, of Europe, and of the West. Courtly yet elusive, his writing, in its variety of shapes and forms, presents a contemporary world that relentlessly sweeps us up in its currents, depicting its residual traumas and surprising pleasures with aplomb.
Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems by Ale Debeljak is 194 pages long, and a total of 49,276 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 29 minutes to read Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems aloud.
Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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