Potts Celebrates Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.09.06 | 7:51 AM ET
The poem originated during a trip Ginsberg took to Kansas in the winter of 1966 and “could be Ginsberg’s most prominent road trip poem,” Rolf Potts tells us. He writes in The Believer: “No doubt ‘Howl’ will continue to be recognized as an essential twentieth-century poem, but if we aspire this year to recognize the anniversary of a Ginsberg poem that still seems relevant and challenging, we should fast-forward ten years to 1966, when the iconic Beat poet penned ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ — an antiwar lament that carries an observational honesty not present in the MTV din of ‘Howl.’”
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