Ambition, in Vain is the first collection in the Chapbooks series. 15 original poems and an essay by Hank Youngman.The essay is the author's take on the genre and a brief summary of the process by which...

 "We've fled from shades of green to shades of grey, thinking we've outrun our nature. But we've just perverted it, I think. We've replaced the green of trees with the green of cash, the freedom of nature...

"It was not a sad place. It was a candid place; a place that showed life's epic conclusion in its prosaic reality, an unflattering testimony to time's tyrannical course over all of its subjects: if temporal,...

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...

Here is a treatise on language gone wrong. It begins with a deception, it continues as insanity, and it culminates in tyranny. It all began as a confusion in concept.So here is a treatise on concept:...

"... our culprit is indeed a relative of the Lernaean hydra, that, having lost one head called Ignorance (no doubt to a thoughtless decision), has had its special power result in Stupidity and Cowardice."...

There is more to the town of Leander than meets the eye, and there is more to human nature than either humanity or nature.People visit the small town of Leander every summer.Most keep coming back.The...

Unpack in fluent lexical currencyThe thousands of words trapped in imageryCompress them to the esthetic and conciseAnd write and hope the effort will suffice. Chapbook #3 is the third and conclusive book...

"it has caused us to evolve, for lack of better words, according to the law of survival, this being of the fittest, for lack of any good words, in a reality that favors those least resembling the fit...