Introduction : distressing language
Poetics of mishearing
Siting sound : redistributing the senses in Christine Sun Kim
Misspeaking poetics
"Tongue-tied and/muscle/bound" : doing time with Eigner
Diverting language : Jena Osman's corporate subject
Missing music : the theft of sound in Alison O'Daniel's The tuba thieves
A captioned life
Afterword : redressing language.