| 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 |
 | FOUR ON CAGE |
| Geometries of Attention |
| • | , Ground Zero, |
| Poethics of a Complex Realism |
| WORDS |
| • | FROM ZERO TO THREE IN LESS THAN TWO MILLENNIA |
| • | FIRST THE RETURN TO ZERO |
| • | WHICH MEANS IT'S BECOME |
| • | THE RETURN TO ZERO IN OTHER WORDS |
| • | OR |
| • | WALDEN III? |
| • | AND NOW A BRIEF EXCURSION INTO THE 19th CONTEMPORARY (WHAT'S THERE REALLY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT?) ((A question that only arises because the bulk of thought & lit still comes to us in 19th C forms.)) |
| • | (IS IT POSSIBLE TO AVOID OBLITERARY THEORY?) |
| • | ON THAT NOTE TO THE NEXT |
| • | (CAN WE NOW AVOID OBLITERARY THEORY & SPITTING IMAGISTS?) |
| • | OF COURSE YOU NEEDN'T BELIEVE A WORD OF THIS NOR DOUBT EITHER BETWEEN BELIEVING AND DOUBTING LIES PLAY |
| • | A REALISM NOT EXPANSIVE OR RISKY ENOUGH? |
| • | THE RETURN TO ZERO BEYOND IRONY |
| • | TO THICKEN THE PLOT |
| • | THE RETURN TO ZERO OUT OF A NEED FOR POETRY |
| • | RETURNS US YET AGAIN TO ZERO |
| • | THE BENDING LIGHT OF SPACE-TIME ZERO |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Acknowledgments of Permissions |
| Index |