Tender Buttons [Dirt and Not Copper] by Gertrude Stein

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 17, 2016   Tender Buttons [Dirt and Not Copper]   Gertrude Stein

Dirt and not copper makes a color darker. It makes the shape so heavy and makes no melody harder.   It makes mercy and relaxation and even a strength to spread a table fuller. There are more places not empty. They see cover.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Tender Buttons [Dirt and Not Copper]” was published in Tender Buttons (Claire Marie, 1914).   Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. Her first book, Three Lives, was published in 1909 (Grafton Press, 1909). Among Stein’s most influential works are The Making of Americans (Contact Press, 1925) and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933). She died on July 27, 1946.   Photo credit: Carl Van Vechten  Poetry by Stein   Stein: Writings 1932-1946 (Library of America, 1998)    "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by E. E. Cummings "The Peddler of Flowers" by Amy Lowell "Lunar Baedeker" by Mina Loy Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038