Drought and Say What You Like

by Debra Di Blasi

Book Overview

Debra Di Blasi writes from the heart of the Postmodern American Gothic. A native Missourian, she plumbs the depths of psychosexual repercussion and searing sentiment behind the region's parched, pitchfork-bearing fa?ade. Though her writing has been widely published in literary journals, Drought , paired here with a second novella, Say What You Like , is a stunning first foray into book form. In Drought , Di Blasi dissects a young couple's relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811213323
• ISBN13: 9780811213325
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Postmodern American Gothic

The review title is borrowed from the blurb on the back of the paperback. It is as good a description of this unique writing style as you will get. The list of poems making up Drought is a bit misleading - in general the segments are prose poems ... or prose. However, there is a narrative line - a very powerful tale of the death of a relationship within the stress of drought.The second piece "Say what you like" is less memorable than "Drought". In this case the relationship includes abuse - and when the relationship disolves the identity of the individuals is rendered uncertain in the best postmodern style.A new poet/author's whose work is well worth watching.

This one must be experienced.

Half prose, and half poetry, this story is hard to categorize as far as form. But it grabs you, as does the style and voice. It grips you and won't let you turn away. After finishing this story, and it is a short read, I started right back in on it, to see if what had just happened, actually happened.