Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms
[The Corrected Text]
Reception History by Juliana Spahr
A Note on the Text by Seth Perlow
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.
Gertrude 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.
"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 Books
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