Tender Buttons is a groundbreaking and experimental work by Gertrude Stein, published in 1914. It is a collection of prose poetry that defies traditional narrative and linguistic conventions. Stein's approach to language and meaning in "Tender Buttons" is highly abstract and fragmented. "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein is an avant-garde masterpiece that challenges traditional notions of language and meaning. Through its abstract and experimental prose poems, the collection invites readers to explore language as a medium for sound, rhythm, and sensory experience rather than simply a conveyance of conventional meaning.