[New-Poetry] Re: Tom Disch

[TheOldMole]

I can't scan Larry.

Reminds me of J. V. Cunningham.

Though for my money, the best poet-savaging epigram is still cummings on 
Louis Untermeyer:

mr u will not be missed
who as an anthologist
sold the many on the few
not excluding mr u




David Graham wrote:
> I guess I'm glad I never came under Disch's scrutiny.  
>
> He was very good at pricking balloons, and a hell of a craftsman.  For 
> example:
>
> *Some Poets Who Shall Be Nameless*
>  
>  
> /          Donald/
>  
> I never read him when he was the rage,
> And now his reputation's so much faded.
> Sad truth, that at a certain age
> One's appetite for earnestness is jaded.
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> /          Larry/
>  
> Who squandered his youth and found himself,
> In middle age, a nondescript and common whore.
> Although you'll not find his books on your shelf,
> He had a blast.  They don't make his kind anymore!
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> /         Alfred/
>  
> Though better than the critics have maintained,
> Your verse is not the beaten gold you think it.
> But "vapid"? No, nor altogether "strained."
> Just chill and , even at its best, a trinket.
>  
> --Tom Disch
> /Slope / 17
> http://www.slope.org/archive/issue17/FU_disch.html
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> On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com <mailto:Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Though best known for his fiction, Tom was a wonderful poet and critic.
>>
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/06/rip-thomas-m-disch.html
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