Tender Buttons: Objects—Food—Rooms: Poetry Guide and Free Edition
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Tender Buttons: Objects—Food—Rooms is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946).
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"Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein is a book published in 1914 consisting of three sections: "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". Through experimental language, Stein transforms everyday mundane subjects into unfamiliar territory, attempting to capture things as they truly are rather than how we typically describe them. Influenced by Cubist painter Pablo Picasso, she explores multiple perspectives while stripping away conventional meanings. The work has sparked fierce debate—hailed as a masterpiece of verbal Cubism and criticized as confusing gibberish, with scholars finding hidden themes of sexuality woven throughout its unorthodox poems.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Tender Buttons: Objects—Food—Rooms
- Author credits: Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Prose poems
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Poetry
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