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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.
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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.
"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
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 #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...
May 5, 2018 · Allen’s great impressionistic diary poem, “Wichita Vortex Sutra ” (later included in the 1968 City Lights volume, Planet News) can be heard here ( 2018 update – originally on You Tube but no longer ) in an early version, (here titled “Automobile Poesy to Nebraska”), recorded the year previous, at a benefit reading in Manhattan for the New York W...
Nov 14, 2006 · The Last Antiwar Poem. Allen Ginsberg’s “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” written at the height of the Vietnam War, speaks with a jarring relevance today. Rolf Potts. This article appears in the ...
Jun 11, 2013 · June 11, 2013. Great news! hot news! – the new Ginsberg Recordings release! – Wichita Vortex Sutra! – This is a fully digitalized re-issued masterpiece (recognized at the time as, “one of Ginsberg’s finest moments as a poet and certainly his finest and most compelling recording”).
