Poetic Obituaries: [Janine Pommy Vega] returned to New York,

then moved to California, where the love poems that she wrote to her husband in the year after his death were published in 1968 by City Lights Press as Poems to Fernando--the first poems by a woman to be featured in the City Lights Pocket Poets series.

She went on to publish more than a dozen volumes, with titles such as The Bard Owl (1980); Drunk on a Glacier, Talking to Flies (1988); Mad Dogs of Trieste (2000); and The Green Piano (2005). At the same time she embarked on a prolonged spiritual quest that took her from gurus in the Himalayas to neolithic "matriarchal power sites" in the Amazon, Nepal and Europe, via two years spent as a hermit on an island on Lake Titicaca.

from The Telegraph: Janine Pommy Vega

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