Tender buttons

objects, food, rooms

52 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1997 by Dover Publications.

ISBN:
978-0-486-29897-9
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Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words - clustered, juxtaposed, redefined and played off one another - to subterfuge their common meanings, which Stein felt had become watered down, and to re-infuse them with expressive force.

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