Lifting belly

Gertrude Stein

Original title: Lifting Belly

earliest edition we have, 1989 Naiad Press, 1989 62 pages

Often considered the central erotic work of Stein's middle period, this love poem written to her longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas, reveals a vulnerability and tenderness unexpected of one so famous for caustic wit. Associative in structure, the work consists of alternately cryptic and conversational fragments detailing a shared domestic life. A very brief initial section observes the hardships of gay estrangement...

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Lifting Belly edition · 2020 · Counterpoint Press · 112 pages · 9781640093430
Lifting Belly paperback · 1989 · Brand: Naiad Pr · 108 pages · 9780941483513
Lifting belly edition · 1989 · Naiad Press · 62 pages

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