[New-Poetry] Re: Tom Disch

[jforjames at aol.com]

I like Disch's biker tatoos and crossed arm pose?on the?cover of?_The Castle of Indolence_.
There is no accounting for depression (or any form of mental illness) but I wonder if
Disch considered poetry his 'first art'? Reading the various biographies one would think
him a?success. I'm surprised the sci-fi genre didn't provide more of a?fi cushion for him.
But I guess not. 
Finnegan



-----Original Message-----
From: jforjames at aol.com
To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 9:58 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Re: Tom Disch


Is that
Hall,
Levis,
& Corn?
He got the 'nameless; right. I think the funny part is that 
someone takes the time/effort
to?epigrammatically skewer poets who
haven't penetrated the public consciousness.
I don't get it.
Finnegan


-----Original Message-----
From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
Sent: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:37 pm
Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: Tom Disch


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

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?

????????? 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!

?

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?

???????? 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 wrote:


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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