THE ATHENAEUMTender ButtonsGertrude Stein
Poetry
Tender Buttons
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textGertrude Stein’s book of 1914, in three parts, Objects, Food and Rooms, describes things by every word except the usual ones. The first piece is called “A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass.” Readers have argued ever since about what it means, which may be the point.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About an hour
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #15396. In the public domain in the United States.