The sound of poetry, the poetry of sound / Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin -- Prelude: poetry and orality / Jacques Roubaud ; translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel -- Pt. 1. Translating sound. Rhyme and freedom / Susan Stewart ; In the beginning was translation / Leevi Lehto ; Chinese whispers / Yunte Huang ; Translating the sound in poetry: six propositions / Rosmarie Waldrop ; "Ensemble discords": translating the music of Maurice Scève's Délie / Richard Sieburth ; The poetry of prose, the unyielding of sound / Gordana P. Crnković -- Pt. 2. Performing sound. Sound poetry and the musical avant-garde: a musicologist's perspective / Nancy Perloff ; Cacophony, abstraction, and potentiality: the fate of the Dada sound poem / Steve McCaffery ; When cyborgs versify / Christian Bök ; Hearing voices / Charles Bernstein ; Impossible reversibilities: Jackson Mac Low / Hélène Aji ; The stutter of form / Craig Dworkin ; The art of being nonsynchronous / Yoko Tawada ; translated by Susan Bernofsky -- Pt. 3. Sounding the visual. Writing Articulation of sound forms in time / Susan Howe ; Jean Cocteau's radio poetry / Rubén Gallo ; Sound as subject: Augusto de Campos's Poetamenos / Antonio Sergio Bessa ; Not sound / Johanna Drucker ; The sound shape of the visual: toward a phenomenology of an interface / Ming-Qian Ma ; Visual experiment and oral performance / Brian M. Reed ; Postlude: I love speech / Kenneth Goldsmith