V knige rassmatrivayutsya razlichnye modifikatsii zhanra modernistskoy poemy 1920-kh godov, proslezhivaetsya transformatsiya romanticheskoy traditsii v avangardnykh eposakh N.Aseeva, I.Sel'vinskogo, vyyavlyayutsya sposoby postroeniya "obraza mira" v poemakh V.Mayakovskogo, M.Voloshina, M.Tsvetaevoy, obstoyatel'no analiziruetsya motivnaya kompozitsiya i liricheskiy syuzhet proizvedeniy. Osoboe vnimanie udelyaetsya obrazu vzryva v ekspressionistkikh poemakh i motivu prikaza v tvorchestve sovetskikh poetov. Kniga adresovana literaturovedam, studentam-filologam, uchitelyam-slovesnikam i chitatelyam, interesuyushchimsya problemami khudozhestvennogo tvorchestva.