Portrait of Prince B.D.

Poetry

Geography and Plays

by Gertrude STEIN (1874 - 1946)

Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being" and can be seen as literature's answer to Cubism, plasticity, and collage. Although the book has been described as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is considered to be one of Stein's seminal works. (summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of Geography and Plays:
A Curtain Raiser , A Family of Perhaps Three , A Poem About Walberg , A Portrait of F.B. , Accents in Alsace. A Reasonable Tragedy , Advertisements , Bonne Annee. A Play , Captain Walter Arnold. A Play , Counting Her Dresses. A Play , Do Let Us Go Away. A Play , Every Afternoon. A Dialogue , For the Country Entirely. A Play in Letters , He Said It. Monologue , I Like It To Be a Play. A Play , If You Had Three Husbands , IIIIIIIIII , Johnny Grey , Ladies' Voices (Curtain Raiser) , Land of Nations (Sub Title: And Ask Asia) , Mexico. A Play , Mrs. Whitehead , Next. (Life and Letters of Marcel Duchamp) , Not Sightly. A Play , One. Harry Phelan Gibb , One (Van Vechten) , Pink Melon Joy , Please Do Not Suffer. A Play , Portrait of Constance Fletcher , Sacred Emily , The Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking At , Tourty or Tourtebattre. A Story of the Great War , Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It. A Play , What Happened. A Play in Five Acts , White Wines. Three Acts , Work Again