Janine Pommy–Vegamanuscripts 1967–1980

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Janine Pommy–Vegamanuscripts 1967–1980

The American poet Janine Pommy-Vega was born in 1942 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Janine Pommy-Vega Manuscripts collection includes autograph and typescript drafts, galleys, and correspondence related to the publication of three of Pommy-Vega’s books: (1976), (both the original 1974 edition, and the reprinting with new material published as in 1979), and (1980). Also included are the manuscripts for and a printed copy of the broadside . Morning Passage Journal of a Hermit Journal of a Hermit & The Bard Owl Star Treatise

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Pommy-Vega, Janine

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The American poet Janine Pommy-Vega was born in 1942 in Jersey City, New Jersey. During the early 1960s she moved to Greenwich Village, became acquainted with the Beat writers Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and married the Peruvian painter Fernando Vega. Following Vega’s death from a drug overdose in 1965, Pommy-Vega wrote and published her first book, Poems to Fernando, with City Lights Books in 1968. She has traveled extensively in North and South America, and in...