100 Queer Poems by Andrew McMillan
Published 2023
How hard is 100 Queer Poems to read?
100 Queer Poems scores 55 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Varies enormously across a century of poets.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Every form represented.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Poetry is abstract by nature; the selection spans registers.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Compressed per poem.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- A hundred different speakers.
- Symbolic density: 65 out of 100
- Figuration throughout.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Varies by poet.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Poems characteristically withhold.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- An anthology, so the load is in the switching.
How 100 Queer Poems is regarded
100 Queer Poems holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.