<p>Janine Pommy Vega was an American poet associated with the Beats. She grew up in New Jersey. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, she traveled to Manhattan to become involved in the Beat scene there. In 1962, Vega moved to Europe with her husband, painter Fernando Vega. After his sudden death in Spain in 1965, she returned to New York, and then moved to California. Poems to Fernando was her first book, published by City Lights in 1968 as part of their City Lights Pocket Poets Series.</p>

Poems to Fernando.

POMMY-VEGA, Janine

City Lights Books

The bard owl

Kulchur Foundation

Janine Pommy Vega is the archetypal New York Beat. Her poetry is intelligent and politically aware, and her performances in English and in Spanish, with and without music are intense, incantatory. Her writings are also intensely autobiographical, following closely in the footsteps of her life-journey: they are the poetic record of her experience-hungry travels through the world and her spiritual retreats into herself; her work with public school children and delinquent youth, and with the inmates and staff of the New York State prison system; her friendships and her love affairs, her farewells and her lingering memories. For this major retrospective volume, she has selected the best lyrics, protests, portraits, and elegies from her first twenty-five years of writing. The result is "an honest and passionate road map to her soul," said the American Book Review, "a book describing one poet's life as a pilgrimage toward herself. It is an exhilarating trip."

Mad Dogs of Trieste: New & Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Black Sparrow Press

Vega, Janine Pommy

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