In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of
Gertrude Stein's posthumous works, among them her incomparable
"Stanzas in Meditation." Since that time, scholars have discovered
that Stein's poem exists in several versions: a manuscript that
Stein wrote and two typescripts that her partner Alice B. Toklas
prepared. Toklas's work on the second typescript changed the poem
when, enraged upon detecting in it references to a former lover,
she not only adjusted the typescript but insisted that Stein make
revisions in the original manuscript.
This edition of "Stanzas in Meditation" is the first to confront
the complicated story of its composition and revision. Through
meticulous archival work, the editors present a reliable reading
text of Stein's original manuscript, as well as an appendix with
the textual variants among the poem's several versions. This record
of Stein's multi-layered revisions enables readers to engage more
fully with the author's radically experimental poem and also to
detect the literary impact of Stein's relationship with Toklas. The
editors' preface and poet Joan Retallack's introduction offer
insight into the complexities of reading Stein's poetry and the
innovative modes of reading that her works require and generate.
Students and admirers of Stein will welcome this illuminating new
contribution to Stein's oeuvre.
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