Tender Buttons (Annotated‪)‬

Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American author Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's 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.


This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  It has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and Gertrude Stein, including an overview, style, title, interpretation, biographical and bibliographical information.