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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 ...
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
"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
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. It's not the vast plains mute our mouths ...
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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.
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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One poem in the volume, "Wichita Vortex Sutra," captures the bizarre contradictions between distant Indochina and middle America. Ginsberg is literally in a vortex of recorded speech as he drives (or is driven) from Macpherson, Kansas, to Wichita, where he is to give a poetry reading.
