Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound 1
4. Prelude: Poetry and Orality 18
5. PART I TRANSLATING SOUND
6. Rhyme and Freedom 29
7. In the Beginning Was Translation 49
8. Chinese Whispers 53
9. Translating the Sound in Poetry: Six Propositions 60
10. “Ensemble discords”: Translating the Music of Maurice Scève’s Délie 66
11. The Poetry of Prose, the Unyielding of Sound 79
12. PART II PERFORMING SOUND
13. SOUND POETRY AND THE MUSICAL AVANT-GARDE: A MUSICOLOGIST’S PERSPECTIVE 97
14. Cacophony, Abstraction, and Potentiality: Th e Fate of the Dada Sound Poem 118
15. When Cyborgs Versify 129
16. Hearing Voices 142
17. Impossible Reversibilities: Jackson Mac Low 149
18. The Stutter of Form 166
19. The Art of Being Nonsynchronous 184
20. PART III SOUNDING THE VISUAL
21. Writing Articulation of Sound Forms in Time 199
22. Jean Cocteau’s Radio Poetry 205
23. Sound as Subject: Augusto de Campos’s Poetamenos 219
24. Not Sound 237
25. The Sound Shape of the Visual: Toward a Phenomenology of an Interface 249
26. Visual Experiment and Oral Performance 270
27. Postlude: I Love Speech 285
28. Notes 291
29. List of Contributors 333
30. Index 337