Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Essay as Wager -- The Poethical Wager -- Wager as Essay -- Blue Notes on the Know Ledge -- Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form -- The Experimental Feminine -- The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine -- :RE -- The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II -- Four on Cage -- Geometries of Attention -- Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage8212;May 18, 2005 -- Poethics of a Complex Realism -- UNCAGED WORDS: John Cage in Dialogue with Chance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments of Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.