Poetic Obituaries: City Lights, the bookstore and

publishing house in San Francisco associated with the Beats, published her [Janine Pommy Vega's] first book of poetry, "Poems to Fernando," in its Pocket Poets series in 1968. She went on to publish more than a dozen books of poetry while roaming the world on spiritual quests that included treks in the Himalayas and two years as a hermit on the Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. "Tracking the Serpent," a kind of feminist "On the Road," chronicled her visits in the 1980s to matriarchal power sites in the Amazon, Nepal, France and Britain.

from The New York Times: Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68

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