Songlets

A Modern Collection of English Sonnets

... a poetic dicourse on coming of age, ideological convictions, modern culture and its impacts; psychological, social, and historical.

Songlets is a collection of 20 poems by Hank Youngman. It is the second book of the Chapbooks collection, a planned trilogy of poems arranged by subject and form.

The book begins with a preface explaining the author's beliefs about poetry and the format of the sonnet, including an explanation of the choice in title and cover. The content that follows are a series of English sonnets, varying in theme and subject, and portraying the social, psychological, and ideological issues of the culture that inspired them.