Introduction -- 1. "The theory of life" : Wallace Stevens, Gilles Deleuze, and the difference they make -- 2. "The novel that took the place of a poem" : Stevens and queer discourse -- 3. "No place like home" : Stevens and contemporary American fiction -- 4. "Both sides and neither" : Stevens, masculinity, and American film -- 5. Stevens and New York School poetry in the distance -- 6. "The play between the spaces" : Stevens and psychoanalysis -- Conclusion : diva-dames in the dark