Tender Buttons [Mildred’s Umbrella] by Gertrude Stein

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend February 25, 2017   Tender Buttons [Mildred's Umbrella]   Gertrude Stein

A cause and no curve, a cause and loud enough, a cause and extra a loud clash and an extra wagon, a sign of extra, a sac a small sac and an established color and cunning, a slender grey and no ribbon, this means a loss a great loss a restitution.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Tender Buttons [Mildred's Umbrella]" was published in Tender Buttons (Claire Marie, 1914).   Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. She is the author of The Making of Americans (Contact Editions, 1925) and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933). Stein died on July 27, 1946.   Photo credit: Carl Van Vechten Poetry by Stein   Tender Buttons (Dover Publications, 1997)  "Re-Statement of Romance" by Wallace Stevens "Sea-Heroes" by H. D. "Red Slippers" by Amy Lowell Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. 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