Description: Description of Acquaintance : The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1, Hardcover by Esdale, Logan (EDT); Malcolm, Jane (EDT), ISBN 0826364896, ISBN-13 9780826364890, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. The editors contextualize their relationship and its time period with an introduction; annotations to the letters; and supplementary materials, including pieces by Stein and Riding that exemplify their singular perspectives on modernism as well as their personal poetics. Th provides unique insight into Stein's and Riding's writing processes as well as the larger literary world around them, making it a must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century poetry.
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Book Title: Description of Acquaintance : the Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Topic: Letters, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 14.8 Oz
Author: Jane Malcolm
Item Length: 9.5 in
Book Series: Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
