Tender Buttons / Objects—Food—Rooms

Gertrude Stein

• Poetry
• Book language: English
• 46 pages

Tender Buttons (1914) is Gertrude Stein's collection of experimental prose poems in three sections: Objects, Food, Rooms. It turns ordinary things into playful, abstract language through repetition, rhythm, and shifting meaning. It rewards listeners open to sound and ambiguity rather than conventional narrative.

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