Ode To A Taxi Driver

Author : Sean Singer
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1946482854
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Today in the Taxi written by Sean Singer and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Eric Ode
Publisher : Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781610670722
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dan, the Taxi Man written by Eric Ode and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here's Dan, Beep! Beep! the Taxi Man, going to the show and picking up the band. Climb inside while you still can with Dan, Beep! Beep! the Taxi Man." And what a band it is! A symphony of sounds and colors, this cumulative tale is as much fun to read aloud as it is to listen to.Singer/songwriter, author and renowned performer Eric Ode has crafted a delightfully engaging cumulative verse brought to life by Kent Culotta's exuberant paintings. The rhyme sings with the sounds belonging to the various instruments of each hip band member as they pile into Dan's taxi, heading to the show.

Author : Davidson Garrett
Publisher : King Lear of the Taxi
ISBN 13 : 9780977444601
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Lear of the Taxi written by Davidson Garrett and published by King Lear of the Taxi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear of the Taxi is a philosophical journey through poetry and prose of a struggling actor who must earn a grueling living as a taxi driver-while striving to attain artistic success. Davidson Garrett's self-portrait is a glimpse at an ever-changing New York City-where the inflation rate multiplies by the week-and aspiring artists are threatened by an urban society that values real estate over the long-term health of the arts.

Author : Amy Taubin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718443
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taxi Driver written by Amy Taubin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle – pent-up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American masculinity post-Vietnam. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing – finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture. In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Amy Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of contemporary politics of race and masculinity in the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with Robert De Niro about his memories of making the film.

Author : Michael Salazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977081742
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taxistentialism written by Michael Salazar and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems, etc. on being a taxi cab driver dealing with the everyday meaning of life and how to get by in the world.

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Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781932899153
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction #603 written by and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renate A. Schulz
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627871802
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Alien Territory written by Renate A. Schulz and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired university professor Renate Schulz is looking for something to do with her life, some way to give back. She decides to rejoin the Peace Corps forty-six years after she first served. Life in Alien Territory: Memories of Peace Corps Service in Mali chronicles her eleven months in Mali, West Africa, a predominantly Muslim country. At age seventy-one, she is the oldest Peace Corps volunteer among 180 other Americans. Schulz weaves the highs and lows of her life as a volunteer in Africa into her daily journal entries. Her personal struggles with the challenges of living in third world conditions, particularly at her age, are woven into her real-life concerns about human rights in West Africa, particularly for women and children. Her time in Mali, with all its challenges and frustrations, are offset with her growing appreciation for this "alien" culture. In this wonderfully readable travel narrative, Schulz captures the spirit of the culture, education, and people of Mali. At the same time, she shows how you are never too old to have a life-changing adventure.

Author : Richard Elman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782757838013
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taxi driver written by Richard Elman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You talkin' to me ?" Cette réplique de Robert de Niro dans Taxi Driver est l'une des plus célèbres de l'histoire du cinéma. Mais tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance de lire le roman qui a inspiré ce film culte... Travis Bickle, ancien marine, se reconvertit en chauffeur de taxi à New-York. Afin d'échapper à sa solitude, il fait la cour à Betsy, l'assistante du candidat aux présidentielles. Tourmenté par ses amours difficiles et par la violence de ses nuits, il décide de s'entraîner au maniement d'armes, animé par le rêve d'un grand destin....

Author : Andrei Frolov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780533107476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of a Taxi Driver written by Andrei Frolov and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004521518
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian’s De Parasito, Nietzsche’s “the vengeance of the weak,” Dostoyevsky’s “Underground,” or Marxism, among others.