The Chapbooks Trilogy

<p><em>And I wrestled with reeds in perilous bogs<br>I've set fire to weeds and snuck up on stalks.<br>I've walked through meadows all covered in sand<br>I've planted my seeds in infertile lands.</em></p><p> </p><p><u><em>The Chapbooks Trilogy</em> is a printed collection of the three books in the <em>Chapbooks</em> series featuring a total of 50 poems and three critical essays on the subjects of verse and culture.</u></p><p> </p><ul><li><em>Ambition in Vain</em> is a poeticized account of the disillusion of curtailed ambitions in the emergent culture of the 21st century. Melancholic at times cynical and on occasion humorous <em>Ambition in Vain</em> aims to illustrate and communicate the reality of the new zeitgeist in an intellectually stimulating medium.</li><li><em>Songlets</em> is a poetic discourse on coming of age ideological convictions modern culture and its impacts; psychological social and historical; 20 sonnets with a diversity of subjects and themes united in form and their poetic scope.</li><li><em>Chapbook #3</em> concludes the series with a variation in form and a subject matter laden with enduring  temporal universal and subjective motifs; aware of a spiritual reality yet just shy of esoteric. The mood combines the serious with the expressive and the continuity in focus portrays a spectrum between optimism and bleak lucidity.</li></ul><p><br><strong>Written for an educated audience <em>The Chapbooks Trilogy</em> is a somber yet hopeful account of a reality which prosaic character becomes enlivened by the lyrical narrative employed to explore understand and communicate the unexplored misunderstood and the unheard.</strong></p>