Tender Buttons' (The title Tender Buttons, of course, refers to a woman's nipples), is one of the great Modern experiments in verse, a small book separated into three sections: Food, Objects, and Rooms-each containing prose under subtitles; a series of descriptions defying conventional syntax. Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. At once considered a masterpi