Wichita Vortex Sutra

"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[1] and Collected Poems 1947-1980.[2] The poem presents Ginsberg as speaker, focusing on his condemnation of the Vietnam War. It features imagery of the war and America's Heartland interspersed with news reports and cultural references. It is also written in Ginsberg's distinctive Whitman-like long-prose style.[3]

  1. ^ Ginsberg, Allen (2007). Collected poems, 1947-1995 (1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0061139758.
  2. ^ Ginsberg, Allen (1988). Collected poems, 1947-1980 (1st Perennial Library ed.). New York: Perennial Library. ISBN 0060914947.
  3. ^ On "Wichita Vortex Sutra", english.illinois.edu, retrieved Dec 10, 2009