EPILOGUE Returning to Stein

• Published in: A Vocabulary of Thinking p. 159
• Main Author: Deborah M. Mix
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Iowa Press 01.12.2007
• Subjects: Arts; Communications; Female homosexuality; Gays and lesbians; Gender studies; Homosexuality; Literary criticism; Literary genres; Literary studies; Literature; Narratives; Poetry; Praise poetry; Sexual orientation; Social sciences

Gertrude Stein’s “Patriarchal Poetry,” published in the 1927 collectionBee Time Vine, bears all the hallmarks of her most hermetic and difficult poetry. The near-constant repetition, always with “a little changing,” of specific words and phrases is not, however, as some readers may believe, a paean...