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Jul 19, 2019 · Wichita vortex sutra. by. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-. Publication date. 1966. Publisher. San Francisco : Coyote, Published by James Koller. Distributed by City Lights Publishing. Collection.
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.
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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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
Oct 17, 2009 · Wichita Vortex Sutra by Allen Ginsberg, 1966, James Koller edition, in English
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Jun 11, 2013 · – 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”). The poem itself dates from 1966 (an epic chronicle of the Imagination and of American consciousness at the height of the Vietnam War).
