UNT Press

Transgressive Poetics in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

Published: August, 2026  Pages: 288  Features: 45 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.

Transgressive Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Classroom is a direct response to the increasing pressure to sanitize or censor curricula that educators across K-12 and higher education face. Each chapter pairs literary analysis with pedagogical implications to argue for the increased use of poetry in the classroom, centering a structuralist approach to analyzing early twenty-first-century poetry in the transgressive classroom as a site of resistance. Using this approach, Transgressive Poetics prioritizes some of the most distinct and pervasive formal traditions in contemporary American poetry: received forms, invented forms, erasure, nontraditional forms, and “unreadable” poems, or poems that resist a traditional or linear reading. more... about Transgressive Poetics in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom