Tom Disch, R.I.P.

Dave Lull gives me the sad news that novelist and poet Tom Disch took his own life on July 4 -- a grim Dischian irony. Go here, here and here for more information and tributes. I first read his science fiction as a teenager and fondly remember Camp Concentration. I've written about his poetry several times, and his final collection, About the Size of It (2007), is superb. Included in that book is "A Gravedigger's Soliloquy," which closes like this:

"Allow the gnashing
Of your teeth and his, lipless, tonguless, but
Not yet incommunicado. Accept the kiss of Death."