This 1915 work exhibits the distinct prose style and thought-provoking experimental techniques for which its author is famous. One of Stein's most accessible an

First published in 1909, Stein’s work Tender Buttons is a modernist classic and a wonderful example of her thought-provoking and highly original style of writ

She traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist painting;

For all its recent popularity among poets and critics, prose poetry continues to raise more questions than it answers. How have prose poems been identified as s