Manual for Living (Pitt Poetry Series) - Poetry Book for Self-Discovery & Personal Growth | Perfect for Meditation, Book Clubs & Gift Giving
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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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Seriously witty and wittily grave poems. Greek stoicism, Goya, contemporary paintings and the Hebrew Psalms inspire a twenty-first century New Yorker to write poems at once cheeky and prayerful . Reading Dolin's lines (so full of sound-play and word-play) can feel like discovering a new species of song lyric:Power is such a fickle hour, mean wealthshackled to itself. Only byattending to what is outsideyour purview (repute is a beaut)will you be undone. And that's no fun.Savvy,sad,celebratory poems of instruction, and self-instruction. As Bishop said, "awful but cheerful".--And she gets in peach pie!
