Laynie Browne on Stein's "A Carafe" and "objects" in Tender Buttons

In this clip, American poet Laynie Browne reads an excerpt from "Objects," the opening section of Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons" as part of the centennial celebration of the publication of Tender Buttons which took place at the Kelly Writer's House on October 1, 2014. To see the whole program, please visit our website: writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/...

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I admire Gertrude Stein's prose form of writing! This is a wonderful and inspirational video!

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The difference is spreading... this mention of what separates the carafe from the glass is as central to the poem as the tittle itself. Words in the poem have expanded the distance between carafe and glass; it is all in the craft of writting, the way we see things is modified by our statements about them and also the notion of image (as presented by imagism) or the ordinary life put in ordinary words and still making poetry (Williams) is questioned by the trascendence beyond the objects as they are or appear. Imagists relied so much in things as they appear and in the power of language to interpretate reality, Stein makes a statement about what can be sure of in terms of relation between image and sense. How much of ourselves we put in teh process or reading. Is the reader a writing companion for the poet? So much to think about.