Gertrude Stein: Resources
compiled by Matthew Cheney
By Gertrude Stein
Texts
- “Composition as Explanation”
- “If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
- “Susie Asado”
- How to Write (Google Books)
- recordings of Stein and her works at PennSound
- recordings of Stein and her works at UbuWeb Sound
- works by Gertrude Stein at The Poetry Foundation
- works by Gertrude Stein at Project Gutenberg
Collections
- A Stein Reader, ed. Ulla E. Dydo (Google Books)
- A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Worldcat)
- The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-Garde Letters, ed. Richard Kostelanetz (Google Books)
- The Yale Gertrude Stein: Selections, ed. Richard Kostelanetz (Worldcat)
- Gertrude Stein: Selections, ed. Joan Retallack (Google Books)
- Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903–1932 and Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932–1946, ed. Catherine Stimpson and Harriet Chessman (Library of America)
- Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, ed. Carl van Vechten (Google Books)
About Gertrude Stein
Analytical
- “All About Ida” by W.H. Auden
- “Twenty-two on ‘Tender Buttons’” ed. Julia Bloch, Jacket2
- Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein ed. Janet Boyd & Sharon J. Kirsch (Google Books)
- The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein, ed. Kurt Curnutt (Worldcat)
- Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises by Ulla E. Dydo (Google Books)
- “Gertrude Stein: The Original Texter” by Lucy Ferriss, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- “Portrait, But of Whom?: A Discussion of Gertrude Stein’s ‘Christian Bérard’”, Poem Talk podcast roundtable discussion by Al Filreis, Lee Ann Brown, Bob Perelman, and Jerome Rothenberg
- “An Essay on ‘Patriarchal Poetry’” by Karen Ford, Modern American Poetry (see also: selected analyses of “Patriarchal Poetry” at Modern American Poetry)
- “Understanding Steinese” by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
- How Reading Is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein by Astrid Lorange (Google Books)
- “The Making of ‘Tender Buttons’: Gertrude Stein’s Subjects, Objects, and the Illegible” by Joshua Schuster, Jacket2
- “Impossible Poetry? On Gertrude Stein” by Anne Waldman, poets.org
Biographical
- “Stein’s Life and Career” by Linda Wagner-Martin, Modern American Poetry
- “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories”, National Portrait Gallery
- “Gertrude and Alice in Vichyland” by Charles Bernstein and “Gertrude Stein’s War Years: Setting the Record Straight: A dossier”, ed. Charles Bernstein, Jacket2
- “In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism” by Anne E. Fernald, Public Books
Pedagogies and Practices
- Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein, ed. Logan Esdale & Deborah M. Mix (MLA)
- Creative Writing Innovations: Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom ed. Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, Joseph Rein (Google Books)
- Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process by Peter Elbow (Google Books)
- “Unoriginal Genius: Student Poems Made from Tender Buttons” by Logan Esdale, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus cluster: Teaching Modern Poetry
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang (Google Books)
- The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing by Hazel Smith (Google Books)
- “Gertrude Stein: Unlikely Comp Teacher” by Kyle Winkler, The Millions
