Customer Reviews:

• Review at SubtleTea.com by Marie Lecrivain, executive editor of poeticdiversity.

• Review at Loch Raven Review by Christopher T. George.

• Review at New Hope International by Doreen King.

• "Deborah P. Kolodji demonstrates her mastery of haiku in two small chapbooks: the diminutive, cleverly illustrated Seaside Moon (Saki Press 2004) and Unfinished Book (Shadows Ink, 2006). The latter contains a few longer poems as well as the delightful haiku and cinquains for which Kolodji is noted." - The Comstock Review

• "Deborah Kolodji is a member of The Haiku Society of America, The California Federation of Chaparral Poets, and The Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her poems have appeared in many publications, and she is the winner of the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest. This chapbook, called a "harvest of poems" and an "unfinished book" by the author, features work that ranges from subtle to stunning.

A skillful haiku poet can communicate much in few words. "corn silk" is one example of haiku's simplicity and beauty:

                corn silk
                a child's face peeking out
                behind the stalks

Roses become a stunning reflection of one woman's life in haiku form. This series haunted me long after each haiku had been read and contemplated:

                he picks a rose
                from her mother's garden
                first date

                dried roses
                the yellowed sash
                of her prom dress

                dozen red roses
                she examines the bruise
                in the mirror

                stray rosebud
                from the office companion
                another re-org

"Infidelity" is a free form poem, powerfully written about a woman who divorces her husband after finding a paper trail to hotels and restaurants shared with his young lover. I chose one excerpt as example:

                and each paper became one more skin
                to peel away, the round illusion slowly shrinking,
                a perfect marriage becoming memory –

"Gingko in November" combines reality with metaphor to create a pleasing word picture:

                gingko
                yellow leaf fans
                waving autumn goodbye
                hitchhiking on wind gusts dropping
                silent.

The work inside this chapbook emphasizes why Deborah Kolodji is a poet honored and respected by her peers. Unfinished Book is exceptional and highly recommended." - Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review