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Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Steins experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.  Stein began composition of the book in 1912 with multiple short prose poems in an effort to "create a word relationship between the word and the things seen" using a "realist" perspective. She then published it in three sections as her second book in 1914.[1]  Tender Buttons has provoked divided critical responses since its publication. It is renowned for its Modernist approach to portraying the everyday object and has been lauded as a "masterpiece of verbal Cubism".[2] Its first poem, "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass", is arguably its most famous, and is often cited as one of the quintessential works of Cubist literature. The book has also been, however, criticized as "a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax"

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One evening in the winter, some years ago, my brother came to my rooms in the city of Chicago bringing with him a book by Gertrude Stein. The book was called Tender Buttons and, just at that time, there was a good deal of fuss and fun being made over it in American newspapers. I had already read a book of Miss Steins called Three Lives and had thought it contained some of the best writing ever done by an American. I was curious about this new book.  My brother had been at some sort of a gathering of literary people on the evening before and someone had read aloud from Miss Steins new book. The party had been a success. After a few lines the reader stopped and was greeted by loud shouts of laughter. It was generally agreed that the author had done a thing we Americans call  putting something across  the meaning being that she had, by a strange freakish performance, managed to attract attention to herself, get herself discussed in the newspapers, become for a time a figure in our hurried, harried lives.  My brother, as it turned out, had not been satisfied with the explanation of Miss Steins work then current in America, and so he bought Tender Buttons and brought it to me, and we sat for a time reading the strange sentences.  It gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers, doesnt it,  he said. What my brother did, you see, was to set my mind going on the book, and then, leaving it on the table, he went away.

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