{"product_id":"tender-buttons","title":"Tender Buttons","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition\u003c\/i\u003e its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the original publication of Gertrude Stein's groundbreaking modernist classic, \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is unique among the available versions of this classic text and is destined to become the standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGertrude Stein\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e (1933).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth Perlow\u003c\/b\u003e teaches English at Oklahoma State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuliana Spahr\u003c\/b\u003e teaches writing at Mills College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eAttack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"City Lights Publishers - City Lights Publishe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33007715745892,"sku":"9780872866355","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/tender-buttons","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}