Title: Stanzas in meditation : the corrected edition /
Authors: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946; Hollister, Susannah; Setina, Emily; Retallack, Joan; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Stein, Gertrude,; Stein, Gertrude, Criticism, Textual.
Abstract: This edition of Stein's Stanzas in meditation is the first to confront the complicated story of its composition and revision. It includes a reliable reading text of Stein's original manuscript, as well as an appendix with the textual variants among the poem's several versions.
Contents: On not not reading Stanzas in meditation : pressures and pleasures of the text / by Joan Retallack -- The turning point : preface to the 1956 Stanzas in meditation / by Donald Sutherland -- The impossible : Gertrude Stein, review of the 1956 Stanzas in meditation / by John Ashbery -- Stanzas in meditation -- Appendix A. Publication history -- Appendix B. Reading text -- Appendix C. Editorial practices -- Appendix D. Notes.