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Contents
| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Introduction: Essay as Wager | 1 |
| The Poethical Wager | 21 |
| Wager as Essay | 47 |
| Blue Notes on the Know Ledge | 63 |
| Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form | 81 |
| The Experimental Feminine | 90 |
| The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine | 102 |
| :RE:THINKING:LITERARY:FEMINISM: (three essays onto shaky grounds) | 110 |
| The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II | 145 |
| Four on Cage | |
| Geometries of Attention | 175 |
| Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage— May 18, 2005 | 181 |
| Poethics of a Complex Realism | 196 |
| UNCAGED WORDS John Cage in Dialogue with Chance | 222 |
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| Notes | 243 |
| Bibliography | 259 |
| Acknowledgments of Permissions | 269 |
| Index | 271 |