Author(s): Gertrude Stein

Poetry

Written in 1915 and serialized in The Broom in 1922, "If You Had Three Husbands" is an incantatory prose poem concerned with triangulating a description of newly arisen modes of production, and in particular self-production, between avant-garde art, popular media, and the still-dominant domestic sphere, the latter of which, one may come to find, is as dramatic a realm for roiling cultural change as any.