In this sixth collection by award-winning poet Sharon Dolin, iManual for Livingi 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. iManual for Livinig is a wise book drink deeply from it.