Preface: Experimental - Visual - Concrete Poetry and The Yale Symphosophia -- Charles Bernstein: Erosion Control Area 2 (Poem) -- A. INTRODUCTION. Eric Vos: Critical Perspectives on Experimental, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: An Introduction to this Volume (with an Appendix on Carlfriedrich Claus) -- Johanna Drucker: Experimental, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: A Note on Historical Context and Basic Concepts -- B. EXPERIMENTATION IN ITS HISTORICAL MOMENT. Ana Hatherly: Voices of Reading -- Jorge Schwartz: The Moremarrow Trajectory of Oliverio Girondo -- Roberto Gonzalez Ecchevarria: Sarduy and the Visual Text -- John Picchione: Poetry in Revolt: Italian Avant-Garde Movements in the Sixties -- William Anselmi: When the Avant-Garde reaches its Mass: The Novissimi and the Political Situation in Italy: 1977 -- Lello Voce: Avant-Garde and Tradition: A Critique -- C. EXPERIMENTATION IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS. Wladimir Krysinski: The Endless Ends of Languages of Poetry. Between Experiments and Cognitive Quests -- Walter Moser: Haroldo de Campos' Literary Experimentation of the Second Kind -- Haroldo de Campos: Galdxias [exerpts] -- K. Alfons Knauth: Palabrds: The Haroldic Emblem -- Willard Bohn: From Hieroglyphics to Hypergraphics -- Owen F. Smith: Fluxus, Experimentalism, and the End of Language -- Jackson Mac Low: Nonintentional Poetry -- Harry Polkinhorn (comp.): A Mini-Anthology on the State of Contemporary Poetry (With Special Reference to the USA). 1) Harry Polkinhorn: "Hyperotics: Towards a Theory of Experimental Poetry" -- 2) Michael Basinski: "On Experimental Poetry" -- 3) Jake Berry: "Articulating Freedom: Three Brief Notes Regarding the Contemporary Underground/Otherstream" -- 4) Fabio Doctorovich: "The Postypographic Era" -- 5) Jack Foley: "The Question of the Experimental" -- 6) Karl Young: "The Tools of Writing / The Ends of Literature" --Enzo Minarelli: Polipoesia -- Lambert Pignotti: Visual Poetry, Verbo-Visual Writing -- E.M. de Melo e Castro: The Cryptic Eye -- Eduardo Kac: Key Concepts of Holopoetry -- Philadelpho Menezes: Intersign Poetry: Visual and Sound Poetics in the Technologizing of Culture -- D. CONCRETE AND NEO-CONCRETE POETRY. Claus Cliiver: Concrete Poetry: Critical Perspectives from the 90s --Pedro Reis: Concrete Poetry: A Generic Perspective -- Pierre Gamier: Constructivist Poems -- Craig Saper: Under Cancellation: The Future Tone of Visual Poetry -- Amelie Björck: Swedish Concrete Poetry in Focus -- Marjorie Perloff: Afterimages: Revolution of the (Visible) Word -- MEMOIRS OF CONCRETE. Mary Ellen Solt: Concrete Steps to an Anthology -- Elisabeth Walther-Bense: The Relations of Haroldo de Campos to German Concretist Poets,in Particular to Max Bense -- E. THE YALE SYMPHOSYMPOSIUM ON CONTEMPORARYPOETICS AND CONCRETISM: A WORLD VIEW FROM THE 1990s. Contemporary Poetics and Concretism ; Historical Precedents of Concrete Texts ; Theoretical Underpinnings of Experimental Poetry ; Concrete Poets of the 1950s/1960s and Poetics Today ; Concretism: A Poetics or Formal Device? ; Avant-Garde Trends: Is Concretism a New Reading of Tradition? -- Index of Names -- Abstracts -- Correspondence addresses