“Moth Over City at Dusk” is from the third sequence in Manual for LivingOf Hours is a contemporary book of hours that initially sprang from my encounter with Ellen Wiener’s paintings called An Album of Hours.”

– Sharon Dolin (SharonDolin.com)

Sharon Dolin is the author of six books of poetry: Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), Whirlwind (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), selected by Bob Hicok for the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry; Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004); Serious Pink  (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003; reissued 2015); and Heart Work (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1995).