How Long to Read Today in the Taxi

By Sean Singer

How Long Does it Take to Read Today in the Taxi?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 16 minutes to read Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From the passenger seat of Sean Singer’s taxicab, we witness New York’s streets livid and languid with story and contemplation that give us awareness and aliveness with each trip across the asphalt and pavement. Laced within each fare is an illumination of humanity’s intimate music, of the poet’s inner journey—a signaling at each crossroad of our frailty and effervescence. This is a guidebook toward a soundscape of higher meaning, with the gridded Manhattan streets as a scoring field. Jump in the back and dig the silence between the notes that count the most in each unique moment this poet brings to the page. “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

How long is Today in the Taxi?

Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer is 75 pages long, and a total of 19,125 words.

This makes it 25% the length of the average book. It also has 23% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Today in the Taxi Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 44 minutes to read Today in the Taxi aloud.

What Reading Level is Today in the Taxi?

Today in the Taxi is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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