Tender Buttons | 
#classicschallenge 2025 @Lunakay #poetry #2025reads
I like text that presents language in unexpected ways. I didn‘t warm to this as much as I wanted to but there were parts that stood out. I could see how daring this was in its own time.
pickTotally nonsensical, this book is impossible to rate, or even to understand in any coherent way. However, dipping in and out of the nonsense evokes a strange joy.
I‘ll leave you with the book‘s final thought, and if you figure out what this means you are a genius:
“The care with which there is an incredible justice and likeness, all this makes a magnificent asparagus, and also a fountain.”
Thanks, @SerialReader !
#MagnificentAsparagus
A New Yorker article from 1934 describing Gertrude Stein‘s driving ability, (or lack of it!) and comparing it with her writing style.
This gave me a chuckle as these poems are a HOT MESS.
This book is STRANGE.
I think I should wander about and randomly spout off lines like,
“The sudden spoon is the wound in the decision.”
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“Rhubarb is susan not susan not seat in bunch toys not wild and laughable not in little places not in neglect and vegetable not in fold coal age not please.” -Gertrude Stein
A quote for @AnneCecilie plus a photo collage to show the hail stones that came down on my rhubarb on Friday.
Gertrude Stein was a prominent figure in Paris during “La Belle Époque”. She knew Picasso, Hemingway, Ezra Pound and Matisse. She called them the “Lost Generation”.
So when I saw this green penguin classic, I wanted to find out what her writing was like. I‘ve now read some 50 pages of the above example, and don‘t know what to make of it. It‘s just rambling, or has someone read her and can tell me what I‘m missing?
#24in48
Book not in the database, but here‘s number 3
We have an 11 hour layover in Toronto on our way to Ireland, so we went to the Dior exhibit at the museum. You may be wondering what these buttons that we saw have to do with books, but I find literary connections everywhere I go. The buttons were made in Paris in 1950 by François-Victor Hugo, a descendant of Victor Hugo.
My first Stein
Just read these words by happenstance. New life motto. 💃🏼
"Here you see I was wise enough not to hesitate and still I dominated" -Stein "There's the t-shirt." -Professor #ThingsMyProfessorSays
