news | Wednesday July 20, 2016

Tomorrow! Carl Peters talks Gertrude Stein at People’s Co-op Books, Vancouver

In tomorrow’s conversation and reading from his new book Studies in Description, Dr. Carl Peters will give a close reading of Gertrude Stein’s seminal modernist text, Tender Buttons (1914), and will discuss her poetry in the light of painting, theatre, and cinema.

Peters is a scholar, curator, and author of bpNichol Comics (Talon, 2002) and textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett (Talon, 2011). His most recent book-length critical work is Studies in Description, an annotated study of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (Talon, 2016).

Join Peters for the talk tomorrow: Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 7 PM at the People’s Co-Op Bookstore (1391 Commercial Drive) in Vancouver, BC. All are welcome!