Objects—Food—Rooms Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946 creator text utu 2005 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein is a book published in 1914 consisting of three sections: "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". Through experimental language, Stein transforms everyday mundane subjects into unfamiliar territory, attempting to capture things as they truly are rather than how we typically describe them. Influenced by Cubist painter Pablo Picasso, she explores multiple perspectives while stripping away conventional meanings. The work has sparked fierce debate—hailed as a masterpiece of verbal Cubism and criticized as confusing gibberish, with scholars finding hidden themes of sexuality woven throughout its unorthodox poems. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_Buttons_(book) Release date is 2005-03-17 Produced by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Original publication data not identified Prose poems PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15396 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15396 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133348.0 15396