Gertrude Stein was an American avant-garde writer and art collector who lived in Paris. Known for experimental works like Tender Buttons, she hosted a famous literary salon that attracted many notable artists and writers, including Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. She pioneered a new literary style focused on the continuous present.
‘A Red Stamp’ by Gertrude Stein is a poem that explores life’s routine, asking us to reflect on what truly matters.
If lilies are lily white if they exhaust noise and distance and even dust,
Gertrude Stein’s ‘A Chair’ transforms a simple object into a symbol of overlooked significance, exploring frustration, routine, and the limits of perception.
A widow in a wise veil and more garments shows that
shadows are even. It addresses no more, it shadows the
stage and learning. A regular arrangement, the
severest and the most preserved is that which has the
‘Eggs’ by Gertrude Stein explores the complexity hidden in ordinary objects, like an everyday object holding unexpected layers of meaning.
Kind height, kind in the right stomach with a little
sudden mill.
Cunning shawl, cunning shawl to be steady.
In white in white handkerchiefs with little dots in a
‘A Plate’ is a modernist abstract experimental prose poem that explores thoughts triggered by ordinary objects.
A PLATE.
An occasion for a plate, an occasional resource is in buying and how soon does washing enable a selection of the same thing neater. If the party is small a clever song is in order.
‘Sacred Emily’ is an avant-garde poem that challenges conventional language with the iconic phrase, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
Argonauts.
That is plenty.
Cunning saxon symbol.
Symbol of beauty.
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