Today in the Taxi - Couverture souple

Singer, Sean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1946482692 ISBN 13 : 9781946482693

Editeur : Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2022

Synopsis

Sean Singer's radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman's, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient of Singer's jazzy curation as I move from page to page. Today in the Taxi is threaded through with quotes from Kafka, facts about jazz musicians, musings from various thinkers, from a Cathar fragment to Martin Buber to Arthur Eddington to an anonymous comedian. The taxi is at once a real taxi and the microcosm of a world-at times the speaker seems almost like Charon ferrying his passengers, as the nameless from all walks and stages of life step in and out his taxi. I am reminded of Calvino's Invisible Cities, of Sebald's The Rings of Saturn... Today in the Taxi is intricate, plain, suggestive, deeply respectful of the reader, and utterly absorbing. Like Honey and Smoke before it, which was one of the best poetry books of the last decade, this is work of the highest order.
-Laurie Sheck

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sean Singer was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1974. A former New York City taxi driver, he has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark, and has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Singer is the author of two prior collections of poetry: Honey & Smoke and Discography, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1946482692
• ISBN 13: 9781946482693
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 78
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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