{"product_id":"today-in-the-taxi-9781946482693","title":"Today in the Taxi","description":"\u003cp\u003eSean 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 \u003cem\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, of Sebald's \u003cem\u003eThe Rings of Saturn... \u003c\/em\u003e. TODAY IN THE TAXI is intricate, plain, suggestive, deeply respectful of the reader, and utterly absorbing. Like \u003cem\u003eHoney and Smoke\u003c\/em\u003e before it, which was one of the best poetry books of the last decade, this is work of the highest order.--Laurie Sheck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Jazz. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tupelo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946482693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sean Singer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325133820085,"sku":"9781946482693","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7c26d597-aa7b-43e8-b121-3d828a14c72d.jpg?v=1660016388","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/today-in-the-taxi-9781946482693","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}