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 Sc�eve's D�elie / Richard Sieburth ; The poetry of prose, the unyielding of sound / Gordana P. Crnkovi -- 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 B�ok ; Hearing voices / Charles Bernstein ; Impossible reversibilities: Jackson Mac Low / H�el�ene 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 / Rub�en 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.