| The Poethical Wager |
| [Dedication] |
| [Epigraph] |
| Contents |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction Essay as Wager |
 | The Poethical Wager |
| Wager as Essay |
| Blue Notes on the Know Ledge |
| Poethics of the Improbable |
| The Experimental Feminine |
| The Scarlet Aitch |
| :RE:THINKING: LITERARY:FEMINISM: |
 | The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II |
| I WRITERS & READERS—PARTNERS IN CRIME |
| • | II READERS & WRITERS—CONSTRUCTING ACCIDENTS |
| • | READING & WRITING |
| • | TIME (OUT?) |
| • | TIME OUT (OF FOCUS?) |
| • | READING |
| • | WRITING |
| • | POP QUIZ |
| • | WHAT STEIN FOUND HERSELF WRITING |
| • | THE MOTHER OF US ALL |
| • | A POETHICAL WAGER |
| • | UTOPIA NOW? |
| FOUR ON CAGE |
| Geometries of Attention |
| • | , Ground Zero, |
| Poethics of a Complex Realism |
| WORDS |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Acknowledgments of Permissions |
| Index |