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Tender Buttons

by Gertrude Stein · 1965

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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.

FictionPoetryPoetry (poetic works by one author)Amerikanisches EnglischProsaModern PoetryStream of consciousness fictionPs3537.t323 t4 2014818/.5209American Women authorsIntellectual life