ISBN 1-880994-54-2. Paperback, 80 pp., 2001 from Mt. Olive College Press.
Poems by Patrick Bizzaro.
"The first poem of Fear of the Coming Drought implies that we all have, through poetry, a second chance to be less alone, "like the gray-haired/man who withdraws/his savings/from the meager estate/of his youth." But Bizzaro shows us that the real estate of his own memory and imagination are rich rather than meager as he surveys what he loves, writing poems that consistently arrest, surprise, and reward." -- Peter Makuck
"Fear of the Coming Drought helps us live and hope, every poem a settling into the body of language in a place where imagined worlds and memory shape and hold." -- Shelby Stephenson
"These poems are rendered so exquisitely, you come away from each one of them as though from a meaningful conversation; a private talk with someone who matters to your heart and life, and with whom you have gained closeness, understanding." -- Robert Bausch
