Tender Buttons

2011 Reprint of 1914. Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's hermetic works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. Tender Buttons is one of the great Modern experiments in verse. Simultaneously considered to be a masterpiece of verbal Cubism a modernist triumph a spectacular failure a collection of confusing gibberish and an intentional hoax the book is perhaps more often written about than actually read. Divided into three sections-Objects Food and Rooms-the book contains a series of descriptions that defy conventional syntax.