Wallace Stevens and the limits of reading and writing

Introduction: Impossible possible philosophers' poetry

PART ONE: Limits of appropriation and contextualization

Reading Stevens

It must resist the intelligence almost successfully

It must be served like Sukiyaki

It must be intertextualized

It must be made of snow: a case study

Triangulating pleasure, doubt, and irritation

PART TWO: Limits of perception, thought, and language

Infuriating philosophers

Between matter and mind

Between the senses of sense

Between mimesis and music

Between metaphor and X

Poeticizing epistemology.