The MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded "Tender
Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition" its seal designating it
an MLA Approved Edition.
2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the original
publication of Gertrude Stein's groundbreaking modernist classic,
"Tender Buttons." This centennial edition is the first and only
version to incorporate Stein's own handwritten corrections--found
in a first-edition copy at the University of Colorado--as well as
corrections discovered among her papers at the Beinecke Library at
Yale University. Editor Seth Perlow has assembled a text with over
one hundred emendations, resulting in the first version of "Tender
Buttons" that truly reflects its author's intentions. These changes
are detailed in Perlow's "Note on the Text," which describes the
editorial process and lists the specific variants for the benefit
of future scholars. The book includes facsimile images of some of
Stein's handwritten edits and lists of corrections, as well as an
afterword by noted contemporary poet and scholar Juliana Spahr. A
compact, attractive edition suitable for general readers as well as
scholars, "Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition" is
unique among the available versions of this classic text and is
destined to become the standard.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was one of the most important and
innovative American writers of literary modernism, as well as one
of the great art collectors and salon hosts of the period. A
pioneering lesbian writer, Stein lived most of her life in Paris
but became a celebrity in the United States with the publication of
"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933).
Seth Perlow teaches English at Oklahoma State University.
Juliana Spahr teaches writing at Mills College.
""Tender Buttons" was recently reissued by City Lights Books, to
mark the centennial of a volume that broke language barriers,
acknowledging hungers to see more. It challenged with inspired
daring."--Barbara Berman, "The Rumpus"
"For the centennial of this masterpiece, Seth Perlow has given us
much the best edition of the poem, based on Stein's manuscript and
corrections she made to the first edition. Punctuation, spelling,
format, and a few phrases are affected and most especially the
change in the capitalization of the section titles. 'The difference
is spreading.'"--Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania,
author of "Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and
Inventions"
"Happy 100th birthday, "TENDER BUTTONS." You are as explosive,
tantalizing, and delicious as you were on the day you were born.
Your birthday gift from Seth Perlow and Juliana Spahr is a
beautiful new edition that will carry you into your next century,
the best edition ever. Your birthday gift from all of us who love
literature and culture is to buy this edition for ourselves and all
our friends. Congratulations to all."--Catharine R. Stimpson,
Professor, New York University, and co-editor of the two-volume
"Gertrude Stein: Writings" published by the Library of
America
"The publication of an authoritative edition of "Tender Buttons,"
with Stein's hitherto unpublished corrections and editions, is a
splendid way to celebrate the centennial of this influential
modernist work. Scholars will benefit from the full documentation,
and readers will appreciate its convenient format, which resembles
the original publication."--Jonathan Culler, Cornell
University
"This radical multi-dimensional generative cubist text with the
simplest words imaginable continues to alter and shape poetics into
the post post modernist future. We have Gertrude Stein's 'mind
grammar' operating at full tilt, with unpredictability, wit and
sensory prevarication. Look to the 'minutes particulars, ' Blake
admonished, and here she does just that: 'it is a winning cake.'
Salvos to the editor and salient 'afterword' that give belletristic
notes and political perspective as well. A unique edition."--Anne
Waldman, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
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