Download or read book Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs written by Stephen Dunn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-12-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Astaire-like glide through our not-so-idle talk is a pleasure."—Publishers Weekly 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.