Yezzi on Disch

The late Tom Disch is remembered with affection and gratitude by David Yezzi in the September issue of The New Criterion. Yezzi's praise is heartfelt and formidable:

“Tom Disch was a true original, like Guy Davenport or … who? There are so few. It’s not that one agrees with everything such writers think and say (they can be, by their very natures, contrary and provocative). Rather, one admires the cast of mind that refuses to mince or recycle prepackaged notions and emotions. Tom Disch’s novels and poems may be applied as touchstones against cant and mealy-mouthed self-deception. Vigilance will be much harder with him gone.”