Acknowledgements.- Preface: Poetic Making.- Chapter 1: Poetry and the Idea of Sound.- Chapter 2: Silent Sound - Imagination and Identification.- Chapter 3: Transmitters and Receivers - Shared and Selected Sound.- Chapter 4: Invasion of the Sound Aliens.- Chapter 5: Uncomfortably Numb - Alone in the Sound World.- Chapter 6: Searching for the Sound of Self.- Bibliography.- Index.