Manual for Living

by Sharon Dolin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964066
• ISBN13: 9780822964063
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 9.0"