Artworks

Corita Kent

news of the week, 1969

Screenprint

23 1/8 x 12 1/8 in (58.7 x 30.8 cm)

(Inv# CK20-062.a)

Transcribed Text:

Newsweek APRIL 12, 1965 35 CENTS

Profile of the Viet Cong

LIFE July 2, 1965 35 cents

DEEPER INTO THE VIETNAM WAR

A marine is evacuated during patrol action against the Vietcong

I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of dogs, Hell and despair are upon me, crack again and crack the marksman, I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinned with the ooze of my skin. I fall on the weeds and stones, the riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close, taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person, my hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a can and observe.

Walt Whitman