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"Wichita Vortex Sutra" is an anti-war poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1966. It appears in his collection Planet News and has also been published in Collected Poems 1947-1995 and Collected Poems 1947-1980. The poem presents Ginsberg as speaker, focusing on his condemnation of the Vietnam War.
- Allen Ginsberg
- 1966
Wichita Vortex Sutra #3 Lyrics. I’m an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas. but not afraid. to speak my lonesomeness in a car, because not only my lonesomeness. it’s Ours, all over ...
Wichita Vortex Sutra (1966) I’m an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas but not afraid to speak my lonesomeness in a car, because not only my lonesomeness it’s Ours, all over America, O tender fellows– & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy in the moon 100 years ago or in the middle of Kansas now.
Feb 21, 2022 · “Wichita Vortex Sutra” reads like a prophetic and final antiwar poem, he concludes, “an elegy for the power of language in an age of competing information.” More detailed analysis of the poem (from 2006) by Stephen Kirbach in Jacket here. Bob Herz, Phil Memmer, and Stephen Kuusisto discuss the poem in a two-part podcast here and here
Oct 1, 2004 · Produced by Hal Willner (Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull), WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA is Ginsberg’s epic poem about the Vietnam War written in 1966. Willner remarked, “If one were to change a few names, locations, and statistics the poem could have been written today”.
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra. from "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966) I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas but not afraid to speak my lonesomeness in a car, because not only my lonesomeness it's Ours, all over America, O tender fellows--& spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy in the moon 100 years ago or in the middle of Kansas now.
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May 5, 2018 · Allen Ginsberg reads his anti-war poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" ("Automobile Poesy to Nebraska") at the New York Workshop in Nonviolence in 1967.
