Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms

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Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms is the title of a lengthy 1914 poem by Gertrude Stein consisting of word clusters chosen for their prosody and largely derived from etymological word-histories juxtaposed for the purpose of subverting commonplace dictionary meanings which Stein believed had largely lost their expressive force and ability to communicate.

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