ISBN: 9780393046304 - riffs & reciprocities: prose pairs (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Recently, turning from poetry to prose, Stephen Dunn, acclaimed as one of the strongest poets of his generation, began to experiment with short related prose pieces that played off one another in the manner of jazz improvisations. "I was interested in the tangentially related, each piece a discrete paragraph, sometimes an act of definition or redefinition, sometimes a description, occasionally a story." The resulting pairs, vehicles for meditation and exploration, cover such subjects as "Scruples/Saints," "Hypocrisy/Precision," "Money/ Indulgence," and "Anger/Generosity." For Dunn, hypocrisy is a "social virtue," money a "religion without a theology." Throughout, Dunn takes a personal ownership of words that the dictionary merely defines objectively. The wisdom and startling verbal turns we've come to expect from his poetry are everywhere in the ninety miniatures (forty-five pairs) that compose this volume. There may be debts to Ponge and Calvino here, but Stephen Dunn has made prose pairs a fascinating genre of his own.…

Softcover, trade paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prose pieces comparing tangentially related pairs of ideas. 112 pages. Light corner wear, light foredge stain.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers. Paperback, a very nice clean copy, like new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black paper-covered boards with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. Clean black dust jacket featuring the painting, "Second Color Quarter" with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed by author, Stephen Dunn, on front free endpaper. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1998. Stated first edition. 112 pages. Interiors are clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author and additionally Inscribed by him to the author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife: "For Nick & Elena who have enriched me with friendship & love, Stephen 4/19/99.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to another poet, and with an Autograph Letter Signed to the same poet commenting on his work.