{"product_id":"manual-for-living-paperback","title":"Manual for Living - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Dolin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Dolin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eManual for Living\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Whirlwind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBurn and Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of a prose memoir titled \u003ci\u003eHitchcock Blonde\u003c\/i\u003e and two books of translation: \u003ci\u003eBook of Minutes \u003c\/i\u003eby Gemma Gorga and the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eLate to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga\u003c\/i\u003e. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts [SA1] Fellowship recipient, Fulbright Scholar, Pushcart Prize winner, and recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, she lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops and is associate editor of Barrow Street Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731068711219,"sku":"9780822964063","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pux12MHf6R9780822964063.webp?v=1763848590","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/manual-for-living-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}