Transgressive Poetics in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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. 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.Later chapters delve into recently invented forms like the duplex and golden shovel. Stephens also includes concrete, actionable learning activities for educators who may feel apprehensive about or unprepared to incorporate poetry into their courses. Transgressive Poetics is a timely and necessary addition to broader discussions about censorship, pedagogy, and art as activism that will serve educators at every stage.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of North Texas Press,U.S.
ISBN9798898290191

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"Transgressive Poetics connects pedagogical theories to the teaching of experimental literature and offers approaches drawn from classroom experience and informed by literary scholarship. There are very few scholarly books about contemporary literature that are so meaningfully engaged with teaching, especially at the K–12 level, so this book does something very different. It makes a strong case for the teaching of experimental poetry, which is particularly welcome."—Sarah Dowling, author of Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism and Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form"Transgressive Poetics integrates literary analysis, interdisciplinary scholarship, and many concrete classroom applications to show how attention to poetic form enables critical reading, writing, and discussion while navigating institutional constraints and centering historically marginalized voices and issues. The focus, structure, and approach, as well as the examples, are quite compelling and worthy of any writing teacher's attention."—Asao B. Inoue, author of Above the Well: An Antiracist Literacy Argument from a Boy of Color"This is a book that educators should not only read but also use—right now. At once inhabiting the cutting edge of pedagogical theory and overflowing with practical teaching tools, Transgressive Poetics sharply diagnoses the many issues plaguing the twenty-first-century classroom and offers much-needed medicine. Even those who would initially dismiss the notion that a passionate engagement with poetic form could be such medicine will put this book down only to pick it back up and reread a poem or try one of the many wonderful exercises. Stephens's argument is indeed that urgent, persuasive, and refreshingly playful. Here is a scholar and educator who isn't afraid of poetry, including some of the most challenging work poets are making today, and he wants anyone who is afraid to shed their fear, to step up to the challenge and see it as an invitation both to learn and to become a fuller, bolder teacher, thinker, being. This book reminds me that teaching is one of the most hopeful acts, as it is rooted in the belief that what is to come and who is yet to be entirely themselves are worth our deepest care."—Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency