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Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers ... For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."
Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Publish Date: Jul 10th, 1997
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.52in - 5.45in - 0.23in - 0.24lb
- EAN: 9780486298979
- Categories: • Memoirs• American - General• Women Authors
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What people are saying
Author of REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR. @DePaulPAX Professor of Practice. Inaugural Poet for the People at @UChiHumanRights & @CSRPC. @CenterWhirlwind Founder.
Have any of you read Gertrude Stein’s TENDER BUTTONS and wondered what was in Alice B. Toklas’ baked goods?
Poet, four books (most recently, Parasite Kingdom), four chapbooks (most recently, In Place). he/him. If Twitter implodes, try my website or DM me for my email.
Next, a reading for From the Belly, an anthology celebrating and responding to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. This will be at the The Word Works' table, 411, in the book fair, Fri. 3/10 at 11 AM. And ...
Poet who writes opera libretti and the book THE STEINY ROAD TO OPERADOM: THE MAKING OF AMERICAN OPERAS.
@Burgi323 @flix2fly What a sweet first public reading of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. We had about 20 in person @WritersCenter and 25 inZoom. @ModPoPenn @WordWorksEditor The video will be an important teaching tool. Thank you @henrycrawford01
What people are saying
Author of REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR. @DePaulPAX Professor of Practice. Inaugural Poet for the People at @UChiHumanRights & @CSRPC. @CenterWhirlwind Founder.
Have any of you read Gertrude Stein’s TENDER BUTTONS and wondered what was in Alice B. Toklas’ baked goods?
Poet, four books (most recently, Parasite Kingdom), four chapbooks (most recently, In Place). he/him. If Twitter implodes, try my website or DM me for my email.
Next, a reading for From the Belly, an anthology celebrating and responding to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. This will be at the The Word Works' table, 411, in the book fair, Fri. 3/10 at 11 AM. And ...