Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs

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2000
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Stephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as Scruples/Saints, Hypocrisy/Precision, and Anger/Generosity. The wisdom and startling turns we've come to expect from Dunn are everywhere in the ninety miniatures (forty-five pairs) that comprise this volume.

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Stephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as Scruples/Saints, Hypocrisy/Precision, and Anger/Generosity. The wisdom and startling turns we've come to expect from Dunn are everywhere in the ninety miniatures (forty-five pairs) that comprise this volume.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: New edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 12 Feb 2000
ISBN 10: 0393319571
ISBN 13: 9780393319576

Author Bio

Stephen Dunn is the author of eighteen poetry collections. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Different Hours and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the recipient of an Academy Award for Literature. A Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Richard Stockton University, he lives in Frostburg, Maryland.