The third section of TOUT VA BIEN is also called TOUT VA BIEN.

To be quite frank, it’s less interesting than the first two sections. It opens with some prose (I wouldn’t call them prose poems, just prose) and then movies onto some conceptual poetry about conceptual poetry. Which I don’t object to in general, but everything rather reads like a lesser version of Vanessa Place’s much talked about little blue book, Notes on Conceptualisms.

The writing is good, but if I’m honest, reading this section didn’t make me want to read more Stein, it made me want to go back and re-read Notes on Conceptualisms.