Modern and Contemporary Poetics provides important new perspectives on modern and contemporary poetry. The principle focus is on the modern and postmodern poetry of North America, with considerable emphasis given those poets of all cultural groups working to extend their medium in new, innovative, and exploratory ways. The series includes books by established critics and poets as well as those by emerging voices, and encourages both the finest in academic scholarship and works that depart from conventional stylistic constraints to develop new modalities for critical thinking.