Pop Sonnets

October 1, 2015

This slim volume will be greeted with delight by fans of pop music, poets, theatergoers, and readers. It will also be loved by anyone who picks up the book and opens to the Trammps's "Disco Inferno," which includes this spectacular line: "Now was the winter of our disco tent/ made glorious summer by this sonic groove." Didriksen's Tumblr and website (popsonnet.com) have proved popular enough to spawn this book, which is smart and funny and sure to have great general appeal. Readers aren't expected to have read the works of William Shakespeare to enjoy "Ice Ice Baby" recast in sonnet form. Even the introduction is full of cheeky fun. Divided into sections by theme (Sonnets of Love, Songs of Time and Mortality, etc.), the hits included here will be largely familiar to most readers (such as "U Can't Touch This" and "Thriller" and "Let It Go"). Some sonnets are taken from the online material, but half of the book's content is original to this publication. VERDICT Any reader who is intrigued by this concept will enjoy its fantastically skilled execution. [See "Editors' Fall Picks," LJ 9/1/15, p. 32.]--Audrey Snowden, Orrington P.L., ME

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