{"product_id":"description-of-acquaintance-the-letters-of-laura-riding-and-gertrude-stein-1927-1930-9780826368058","title":"Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930","description":"\u003cp\u003eGertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in \u003cem\u003eA Description of Acquaintance\u003c\/em\u003e, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. The editors contextualize their relationship and its time period with an introduction; annotations to the letters; and supplementary materials, including pieces by Stein and Riding that exemplify their singular perspectives on modernism as well as their personal poetics. The book provides unique insight into Stein's and Riding's writing processes as well as the larger literary world around them, making it a must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLogan Esdale\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of English at Chapman University and at California State University-Long Beach. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eApproaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of a workshop edition of Stein's 1941 novel \u003ci\u003eIda\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Malcolm\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at the Université de Montréal. She is the coeditor of an edition of Laura Riding's 1928 book of criticism \u003ci\u003eContemporaries and Snobs\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179988054290,"sku":"9780826368058","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5632fa03-4e49-4074-b0f6-9a0b05bb6c81.jpg?v=1775642586","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/description-of-acquaintance-the-letters-of-laura-riding-and-gertrude-stein-1927-1930-9780826368058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}