Sacred Emily Summary

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Sacred Emily Overview

“Sacred Emily'' is an avant-garde poem by poet, playwright, novelist, and art collector Gertrude Stein. Written in 1913 and published in the 1922 book Geography and Plays, “Sacred Emily” uses word play and abstraction to explore notions of domesticity, womanhood, and language itself.