by Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
A Feather
Language: English
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by the little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserved and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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Authorship:
- by Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), appears in Tender Buttons, in Objects [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Michael Ippolito (b. 1985), "A Feather", 2018 [soprano and piano], from Vanitas, no. 5, confirmed with a score [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-19
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