Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Tender Buttons

Tender Buttons

Stein, Gertrude

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery GeneralHumorGeneral Construction & Renovation

ISBN10: 1534689990
ISBN13: 9781534689992
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 14 2016
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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 create a word relationship between the word and the things seen using a realist perspective. She then published it in three sections as her second book in 1914. Tender Buttons has provoked divided critical responses since its publication. It is renowned for its Modernist approach to portraying the everyday object and has been lauded as a masterpiece of verbal Cubism. Its first poem, A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass, is arguably its most famous, and is often cited as one of the quintessential works of Cubist literature. The book has also been, however, criticized as a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax.

14 different editions

Also available

Also in

Humor

View All