Robert Grenier on Tender Buttons

In his essay on Tender Buttons Robert Grenier argues that Stein was concerned with language not "as object-in-itself" but as "composition functioning in the composition of the world."

from Robert Grenier, "Tender Buttons," in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, ed. Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein (1984), p. 206