My last five posts of 2017 are reruns of five of the most viewed posts on this site during the year.
FROM EVERY MOMENT A SECOND
Robert Okaji
Finishing Line Press
2017
★★★★★
From Every Moment A Second, the latest chapbook by American poet Robert Okaji, is yet another meticulously crafted collection of observations, private austerities and hesitancies spelt out in verse. A small collection of twenty poems, each feels “warm”, like a cozy winter Sunday on your living room couch – to paraphrase Junichiro Tanizaki – lost in contemplation of flavours to come.
What makes it a five star collection is each poem is clear in its vision, each unambiguously a part of the greater gist of the book. Each line shows where lesser works ‘tell’, and thus this collection feels like a series of tiny one act plays. Part of this is how each line and stanza feels like it has been put exactly in its proper place, that any further edits would remove a character or…
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It’s humbling yet fitting that the second most popular post on the blog in 2017 was actually a reblog from Daniel Schnee’s site.
O at the Edges 
I was just trying to do my part: share your amazing poetry with the world!
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It worked – a lot of people saw the review. Thank you!
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You are very very very very welcome!
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My second read-through of this chapbook, which I took with me for a trip up to New England, was even more fruitful than the first. Was glad to add it to my collection of Okaji publications…
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Ah, Jeff. Thank you. Means the world to me.
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Daniel knows his stuff.
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🙂
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