| 2015-12-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x.11 x7.00l,.22 | File type: PDF | 46 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Intended as experiment|By Jim|This book was probably not written for casual readers, or maybe not even anyone but Stein's artist friends. It's about the collapse of language and playing around with what words mean to us, removing that meaning, and seeing what results.
The pace and rhythm makes great reading for poets, or for prose writers who want to think of adding|From the Back Cover||The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book’s effect on readers as “something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to.” Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely revised after its
Tender Buttons - Objects · Food · Rooms - Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar. Stein began composition of the book in 1912 with multiple short prose poems in an effort to "...
You easily download any file type for your device.Tender Buttons: Objects - Food - Rooms | Gertrude Stein. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
