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Tender Buttons
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
Author: Gertrude Stein
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Our Price: $13.22
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Tender Buttons Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781419151026
ISBN: 1419151029
Label: Kessinger Publishing
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 48
Publication Date: 2004-06-30
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Studio: Kessinger Publishing
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781419151026
ISBN: 1419151029
Label: Kessinger Publishing
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 48
Publication Date: 2004-06-30
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Studio: Kessinger Publishing
Editorial Review of Tender Buttons
Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle. So then the order is that a white way of being round is something suggesting a pin and is it disappointing, it is not, it is so rudimentary to be analysed and see a fine substance strangely, it is so earnest to have a green point not to red but to point again.
Customer Reviews of Tender Buttons
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Intellectual but not a Pleasure to Read
Review: I am a student of poetry and a poet myself. I can't say I am any better than a Gertrude Stein who is a legend, but I didn't find this particular book of poems enjoyable to read.
The collection itseld if quite attractively packaged, is of a comfortable length and is quite inexpensive if you are looking for good points. I find the poems, however, overly experimentative.
The first section of the book I found the most interesting with the word play, but an entire book of word play and little narrative arc could not hold my attention. This is still a must read for a student of poetry as the language poets build, and other poets, from the work Stein did in this book. For the average population? I'd say pass on this one.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The emperor in naked.
Review: I can't believe how complimentary the reviews on here are for these poems. Ugh. When I read them, I want to tear every last hair out of my skull.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: proto-fem/experimentalist
Review: advice: read tender buttons as though you've never read before/as though you're a child being introduced to an english language primer- now create (as participant-reader) with aforesaid text allowing the emergence of "un-meaning" as a sort of distilled thingness. what stein attempted with words/pastiche-paralleled the work of analytic?cubists-proto-objectification that made things of words not (not necessarily)in reference to parrticulars but rather retaining a certain concretized essence.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Ms. Stein fires large dusty electronics daily, how satisfying.
Review: Looking for plot, conflict and character developement? Then move on, this is Gertrude's free-flowing automatic writing.
Ms. Stein is crucial reading to round out one's literary experiance and from that vantage point stars are irrelavant; good, bad or indifferent it is literary history. Did I finish it though? No, I did not.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: (un)lost generation
Review: Mimic and talk and write like some kind of Gertrude Stein. We don't know what roots are - rootless - my generation is not lost - we're staying put on the couch where we live. No one can say we're not (or are) expatriate because the shores of our big sea end at the edges of a computer screen - are virtual (and not) reality - no one travels to get there. No hurt feelings (disaffected) because we're all equal - a populist nightmare with the volume turned down. The self-leveling society. Every idea is as good as another is as good as none as all are included. Our defects become differences become diversity become democracy become diluted and die. An eye for an eye made the whole world blind or one-eyed and only some (although they don't want to be singled out) try to make something new something cyclopean (formerly one could say at least but that is pejorative) toward the future but that detracts from the past which we defend on principle only but not in actuality so as soon as we can think of it we'll change that name too but don't pressure us.
Review Summary: Intellectual but not a Pleasure to Read
Review: I am a student of poetry and a poet myself. I can't say I am any better than a Gertrude Stein who is a legend, but I didn't find this particular book of poems enjoyable to read.
The collection itseld if quite attractively packaged, is of a comfortable length and is quite inexpensive if you are looking for good points. I find the poems, however, overly experimentative.
The first section of the book I found the most interesting with the word play, but an entire book of word play and little narrative arc could not hold my attention. This is still a must read for a student of poetry as the language poets build, and other poets, from the work Stein did in this book. For the average population? I'd say pass on this one.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The emperor in naked.
Review: I can't believe how complimentary the reviews on here are for these poems. Ugh. When I read them, I want to tear every last hair out of my skull.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: proto-fem/experimentalist
Review: advice: read tender buttons as though you've never read before/as though you're a child being introduced to an english language primer- now create (as participant-reader) with aforesaid text allowing the emergence of "un-meaning" as a sort of distilled thingness. what stein attempted with words/pastiche-paralleled the work of analytic?cubists-proto-objectification that made things of words not (not necessarily)in reference to parrticulars but rather retaining a certain concretized essence.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Ms. Stein fires large dusty electronics daily, how satisfying.
Review: Looking for plot, conflict and character developement? Then move on, this is Gertrude's free-flowing automatic writing.
Ms. Stein is crucial reading to round out one's literary experiance and from that vantage point stars are irrelavant; good, bad or indifferent it is literary history. Did I finish it though? No, I did not.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: (un)lost generation
Review: Mimic and talk and write like some kind of Gertrude Stein. We don't know what roots are - rootless - my generation is not lost - we're staying put on the couch where we live. No one can say we're not (or are) expatriate because the shores of our big sea end at the edges of a computer screen - are virtual (and not) reality - no one travels to get there. No hurt feelings (disaffected) because we're all equal - a populist nightmare with the volume turned down. The self-leveling society. Every idea is as good as another is as good as none as all are included. Our defects become differences become diversity become democracy become diluted and die. An eye for an eye made the whole world blind or one-eyed and only some (although they don't want to be singled out) try to make something new something cyclopean (formerly one could say at least but that is pejorative) toward the future but that detracts from the past which we defend on principle only but not in actuality so as soon as we can think of it we'll change that name too but don't pressure us.