[New-Poetry] Re: Tom Disch

[Roger Day]

Alfred seems to want "think it is". Most of it seems a little strained.

Roger

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:06 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
> 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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