Saturday 7 October 2023

Gertrude Stein, Water Pipe (snippet)

In her book of assembled musings and quotations of women's voices, Chicanes, Clara Schulmann quotes a portion of Gertrude Stein's poem "Water Pipe" from 1916. There are near no references to this book online other than the reference Schulmann provides herself, which is a short paragraph on the poem published in the French journal Les cahiers du GRIF in 1978. 


I'm not able to find the full poem online, which seems to be published in Reflection on the Atomic Bomb (The Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein) (1973), edited by Robert Bartlett Haas. I picture here the snippet in Schumann's text, which moved me:


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