A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930

By: Malcolm, Jane

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...

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CT6GQGK9
• ISBN13: 9798212961165
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Tantor Audio