During the “bombs bursting in air” section of the national anthem, Hendrix’s Stratocaster wails, paying witness to the pain inflicted under a nationalist banner: the carpet-bombing campaigns carried out by American aircraft in Southeast Asia, the fiery napalm attacks that burned through Vietnam’s jungle foliage and seared human flesh, and the air raid sirens that always seemed to sound too late.

I would like to know which of the four writers/artists in this week’s unit (Snyder, di Prima, Feliciano, Hendrix) makes […]