This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein’s corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes out on the centennial of its original publication, and will relate to the worldwide celebrations next year. Every previous edition has contained dozens of errors – from minor punctuation problems to entire phrases omitted. None has included the corrections and additions Stein personally made after the book appeared. This edition resolves over 100 variances among archival materials and previous versions of the book, providing the first reliable text of Tender Buttons in a compact format that is as approachable for casual readers as it is reliable for more serious scholars. A Note on the Text describes the methods behind this edition and lists all variances resolved. An Afterword by Juliana Spahr discusses the enduring significance of Tender Buttons at its centennial anniversary.Print campaign: We’ll pursue reviews in The Paris Review, SF Chronicle, Bookforum, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Jacket, Boog City, Slate, AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Village Voice, Boston Review, Rain Taxi, Poetry Magazine, American Poet, Bloomsbury Review, Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, LA Times, NY Times, The Nation, New Yorker, Poetry Flash, Poets and Writers Magazine, St Marks Poetry Project Newsletter, BOMB, Jacket 2, Lana Turner. . . . We’ll send to top poetry reviewers who freelance for the major publications that review poetry (New Yorker, NY Times, etc.): Adam Kirsch, William Logan, etc. Advance copies to: Curve, Advocate, Out, Gay and Lesbian Review, Lambda Book Report, Passport Magazine, Lambda, Windy City Times (Chicago), Gay City News(NY), Bitch, Bust, Ms Magazine. We’ll send to the trades: PW, Library Journal, and Booklist. Online and social media campaign: Ron Silliman’s blog, Rumpus, Conversational Reading, Constant Critic, Poetry Daily, Elegant Variation, Identity Theory, NYer’s Book Bench, Bookslut, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Big Bridge, Complete Review, Electric Review, At Length Mag. We’ll promote it on City Lights’ Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr, blog and web site, and on Wikipedia. Radio: Writer’s Almanac, PRI: NPR: All Things Considered Centennial events: McNally Jackson Bookstore in NYC would like to host one, and we’ll pursue at other venues around the country, as well. Endorsements: Charles Bernstein*, Marjorie Perloff*, Lyn Hejinian, Catharine R. Stimpson, Edward Burns, Joan Retallack, Jonathan Culler*, Sharon Cameron, Steve Evans*, Oren Izenberg*, Joshua Clover*, Christopher Nealon*, Ron Silliman, Craig Dworkin, Walter Benn Michaels, Bob Perelman, Susannah Hollister Academic Marketing: *Send book for review to: PMLA, Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity, American Literary History, and American Literature, Paideuma among others. *Editor Seth Perlow is a member of Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, where book could be displayed, and he could possibly participate in conferences. We’ll look into the possibility of getting approval from MLA’s “Committee on Scholarly Editions,” which would lead to publicity through MLA channels. Other possible conferences: American Studies Association & Modernist Studies Association.About the AuthorGertrude Stein: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was one of the most important and innovative American writers of literary modernism, as well as one of the great art collectors and salon hosts of the period. A pioneering lesbian writer, Stein lived most of her life in Paris and became famous in the U.S. with the publication of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). Seth Perlow: Seth Perlow is an Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. His research and teaching focus on twentieth-century American literature, poetry and poetics, new media studies, and gay and lesbian literature. He earned a PhD in English at Cornell University. Juliana Spahr: Juliana Spahr edits with Jena Osman the book series Chain Links and co-edits Subpress. With David Buuck she wrote An Army of Lovers, about two friends who are writers in a time of war and ecological collapse. She is the author of several poetry collections and teaches at Mills College.Reviews“Tender Buttons is a showcase of Stein’s joyful draw to words.”–Dina Weinstein, Jewish Book Council “What distinguishes this edition from others is over 100 edits, some indicated by Stein in her unmistakable handwriting found by editor Perlow in a first-edition copy held at the University of Colorado, as well as other corrections gleaned from her papers at Beinecke Library of Yale University and from the Library of America edition.”–Karren LaLonde Alenier, Scene4 Magazine “She did in writing what Picasso and her other painter friends were doing in their Cubist painting. Writing had to be moved out of the grip of the nineteenth century. All naturalistic description, romanticism and sentimentality had to be left behind.”–Renate Stendhal, San Francisco Bay Times “Tender Buttons is a dazzling work that rewards close study and requires a willingness to let go of the need for concrete, literal storytelling.”–Christopher Luna, Rain Taxi Review of Books”Tender Buttons is a showcase of Stein’s joyful draw to words.”–Dina Weinstein, Jewish Book Council “What distinguishes this edition from others is over 100 edits, some indicated by Stein in her unmistakable handwriting found by editor Perlow in a first-edition copy held at the University of Colorado, as well as other corrections gleaned from her papers at Beinecke Library of Yale University and from the Library of America edition.”–Karren LaLonde Alenier, Scene4 Magazine “She did in writing what Picasso and her other painter friends were doing in their Cubist painting. Writing had to be moved out of the grip of the nineteenth century. All naturalistic description, romanticism and sentimentality had to be left behind.”–Renate Stendhal, San Francisco Bay Times “Tender Buttons is a dazzling work that rewards close study and requires a willingness to let go of the need for concrete, literal storytelling.”–Christopher Luna, Rain Taxi Review of BooksBook InformationISBN 9780872866355Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint City Lights BooksPublisher City Lights BooksWeight(grams) 141g