How long does it take to read The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry?
J. D. McClatchy
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy takes about 11 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 617 pages, about 169,675 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is a newly revised and expanded collection of poems from seventy-five of America's iconic poets of the past half-century, from Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, from Sylvia Plath to Heather McHugh to Yusef Komunyakaa. It gathers together poetry from every region of the country and from the past fifty years.
Subjects: American poetry
