A great loss.
jd
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> With great sadness I announce the death of Thomas Disch. I only met him in
> person twice, fifteen years ago and early this year. But he was a huge
> influence on me and I am proud to say he was my friend. As a poet, he was
> the Alexander Pope of our era, satirizing the follies of society and the
> pretenses and blindnesses of culture with savage perceptiveness. There
> should be other poets like him, but he was one of a kind. He wrote at least
> two of the finest novels in science fiction, Camp Concentration and 334.
> The novel he wrote with Charlie, Neighboring Lives, is a superb fictional
> portrait of the Victorian intelligentsia. His critical prose was
> incomparably vivid and precise. The absence of his talent, vital to the
> end, hurts our literature. His death hurts me. - Fred Pollack
>
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
Weblog: sharpsand.net
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