News at Eleven: Consequently, "Wichita Vortex Sutra"

reads like a prophetic and final antiwar poem, an elegy for the power of language in an age of competing information.

Four decades later, a vivid realization of [Allen] Ginsberg's prophecy would appear to be Poets Against the War, an anthology, edited by Sam Hamill, which was assembled in response to Laura Bush's apolitical White House symposium on American poetry shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At best, the poems in this antiwar tome share Ginsberg's poignant awareness of poetry's political limitations; at worst, the poems are just as paranoid, hyperbolic, and self-righteous as the neoconservative justifications that led to the war.

from Believer: The Last Antiwar Poem

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