Canyon de Chelly, photograph by Richard Erdoes. From the Richard Erdoes papers, WA MSS S-2609.

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From the Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe Archive (from Lenore Tawney)

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From the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers (from Picasso)

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From the Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Societe Anonyme Papers (from Kurt Schwitters)

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From the Ezra Pound Papers (from T.S. Eliot)

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein’s posthumous works, among them her incomparable Stanzas in Meditation. Since that time, scholars have discovered that Stein’s poem exists in several versions: a manuscript that Stein wrote and two typescripts that her partner Alice B. Toklas prepared. Toklas’ work on the second typescript changed the poem when, enraged upon detecting in it references to a former lover, she not only adjusted the typescript but insisted that Stein make revisions in the original manuscript.

This edition of Stanzas in Meditation is the first to confront the complicated story of its composition and revision. Through meticulous archival work, the editors present a reliable reading text of Stein’s original manuscript, as well as an appendix with the textual variants among the poem’s several versions. This record of Stein’s multi-layered revisions enables readers to engage more fully with the author’s radically experimental poem and also to detect the literary impact of Stein’s relationship with Toklas. The editors’ preface and poet Joan Retallack’s introduction offer insight into the complexities of reading Stein’s poetry and the innovative modes of reading that her works require and generate.

Students and admirers of Stein will welcome this illuminating new contribution to Stein’s oeuvre.

Order from Yale UP: Stanzas in Meditation

Arthur Dove

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John Marin

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Jane Bowles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951

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Jane Heap, photographed in Paris by Berenice Abbott, 1927

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Jane White, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941

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Jane DeLynn, photographed by Robert Giard, 1991

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Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format.

Photographs by Robert Giard are used with permission of the copyright holder, Jonathan G. Silin; permission is required to publish Giard photographs in any format.

Remembering Shakespeare
Wednesday, February 1 – Monday, June 4, 2012

Remembering Shakespeare tells the story of how a playwright and poet in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England came to be remembered as the world’s most venerated author. Curated by David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale, and Kathryn James, Beinecke Library Curator, the exhibition brings together works from the holdings of Yale University’s Elizabethan Club, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale Center for British Art, and Beinecke Library, in an unprecedented display of one of North America’s finest collections on Shakespeare. Drawing on these extraordinary resources, Remembering Shakespeare offers a unique visual history of how the “Booke” of Shakespeare was made and read, written and remembered, from his lifetime through the present.

Image: William Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original copies (title page, The third impression), London: Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663
(BEIN 1978 +81)

This exhibition is part of Shakespeare at Yale, a multi-venued celebration for the spring of 2012 that will display the extraordinary resources that exist at the University for the study and enjoyment of Shakespeare. For more information, visit: Shakespeare at Yale.

Miguel Covarrubias, Hand painted New Year’s card sent to Carl Van Vechten (Portrait of Rose and Miguel Covarrubias), 1946. From the Carl Van Vechten Papers.