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Manual for Living
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Series: Pitt Poetry
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ISBN10: 0822964066
ISBN13: 9780822964063
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Mar 8 2016
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780822964063
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Mar 8 2016
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this sixth collection by award-winning poet Sharon Dolin, Manual for Living offers three distinct approaches to life, each one riven by flashes of joy and despair, and all conditions in between. With a fresh slant on the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, the title section offers a part-serious, part tongue-in-cheek series of advice poems. An ekphrastic sequence based on the black paintings of Goya follows, as a darker meditation on life. The final section, Of Hours, is a contemporary sequence of psalms where the possibility for redemption in prayer exists. As in all of her work, Dolin's lyric voice attends to language and the world equally. Her verbal sleights-of-hand offer readers insights for ways to live. Manual for Living is a wise book: drink deeply from it.
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