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Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms

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.

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“A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”

Gertrude Stein book Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms

Source: Tender Buttons

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“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

Gertrude Stein book Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms

Source: Tender Buttons

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