"Familiar Strangers": The Household Words of Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons"

Abstract

One of the pleasures of reading Gertrude Stein is hearing Gertrude Stein read aloud. This is true particularly of some of her more opaque compositions which, on the surface, may seem to substitute lyrical patterns of sound for meaning. Tender Buttons, a collection of prose poems published in 1914, was first received in such a way, at least at the parties of New York literati, if the following account by Sherwood Anderson is typical of the contemporary reaction to Gertrude Stein:

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