About the book: 2021 / Modern poetry, focused on freedom of language experiments, often deviates from normative guidelines. In our time, poetry, with its activated philology, is a kind of linguistic laboratory: the study of language in it is no less productive than scientific research. The book by philologist Lyudmila Zubova examines grammatical imagery and the cognitive potential of grammar in Russian poetry of the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries, analyzes grammatical anomalies that reflect the dynamic properties of the language system and trends in its development. Among the analyzed authors are Alexey Tsvetkov, Victor Krivulin, Elena Shvarts, Vladimir Gandelsman, Vladimir Kucheryavkin, Alexander Levin, Vladimir Strochkov, Vitaly Calpidi, Andrey Polyakov, Maria Stepanova, David Patashinsky, Polina Barskova, Linor Goralik, Gali-Dana Singer, Igor Bulatovsky, Nadya Delalande, Evgeny Klyuev and many others (242 poets in total). Lyudmila Zubova – Doctor of Philology, Professor at St. Petersburg State University.