Tobias Wilke is a Heisenberg Researcher at the Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books in German.

"Along with studying 'multiple avant-garde strategies for reducing poetry to its most elemental conditions in vocal sound production,' Wilke also carefully explores scientific approaches to the production of vocal sound in order to demonstrate how poets 'appropriat[ed] scientific-experimental concepts and techniques.'"

• Introduction1. Voice Figures: Visible Sound and the Poetics of Articulation (1787–1965)Oaoa, or The Eidophonetic PoemVibrating Disks and Primary LettersPhotographing Speech2. Toward a Science of Verse: Speech Movements, Graphic Inscription, and the Study of Poetry (1871–1915)Writing of the Mouth“The Art of Reading Curves”Symbolic Sounds3. Mama—Papa—Dada: Poetic Expression at the Threshold of Language (1916–1947)Remaking Verse in the Vocal TractFrom Babble to Gesture to Word (and Back)E dada: Reading Graphic ArticulationsBirdsong in Translation4. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations: Experimental Modernism in a Technical Age (1947–1967)“Visible Speech” between Body and BitsRearticulating Poetic ExperimentationBeyond Lineality, or The Expansion of WritingAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

Tobias Wilke is a Heisenberg Researcher at the Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books in German.

"Along with studying 'multiple avant-garde strategies for reducing poetry to its most elemental conditions in vocal sound production,' Wilke also carefully explores scientific approaches to the production of vocal sound in order to demonstrate how poets 'appropriat[ed] scientific-experimental concepts and techniques.'"

• Introduction1. Voice Figures: Visible Sound and the Poetics of Articulation (1787–1965)Oaoa, or The Eidophonetic PoemVibrating Disks and Primary LettersPhotographing Speech2. Toward a Science of Verse: Speech Movements, Graphic Inscription, and the Study of Poetry (1871–1915)Writing of the Mouth“The Art of Reading Curves”Symbolic Sounds3. Mama—Papa—Dada: Poetic Expression at the Threshold of Language (1916–1947)Remaking Verse in the Vocal TractFrom Babble to Gesture to Word (and Back)E dada: Reading Graphic ArticulationsBirdsong in Translation4. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations: Experimental Modernism in a Technical Age (1947–1967)“Visible Speech” between Body and BitsRearticulating Poetic ExperimentationBeyond Lineality, or The Expansion of WritingAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

Tobias Wilke is a Heisenberg Researcher at the Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books in German.

"Along with studying 'multiple avant-garde strategies for reducing poetry to its most elemental conditions in vocal sound production,' Wilke also carefully explores scientific approaches to the production of vocal sound in order to demonstrate how poets 'appropriat[ed] scientific-experimental concepts and techniques.'"

• Introduction1. Voice Figures: Visible Sound and the Poetics of Articulation (1787–1965)Oaoa, or The Eidophonetic PoemVibrating Disks and Primary LettersPhotographing Speech2. Toward a Science of Verse: Speech Movements, Graphic Inscription, and the Study of Poetry (1871–1915)Writing of the Mouth“The Art of Reading Curves”Symbolic Sounds3. Mama—Papa—Dada: Poetic Expression at the Threshold of Language (1916–1947)Remaking Verse in the Vocal TractFrom Babble to Gesture to Word (and Back)E dada: Reading Graphic ArticulationsBirdsong in Translation4. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations: Experimental Modernism in a Technical Age (1947–1967)“Visible Speech” between Body and BitsRearticulating Poetic ExperimentationBeyond Lineality, or The Expansion of WritingAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex