Inscribed to poet, Margaret Randall: "1-2010. For Margaret, how wonderful to have found you as a friend. love, Janine Pommy Vega. A very fine copy of this handsome book by Janine Pommy Vega.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Mad Dogs of Trieste: New and Selected Poems

Publisher

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, California

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

157423126X

ISBN 13

9781574231267

Binding

Paperback

Illustrator

David Wojnarovicz

Edition

Later Printing

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Inscribed by Author(s)

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Margaret Randall Collection

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In Mad Dogs of Trieste, mythic figures glide past like giants over the landscape, showing the reader Janine Pommy Vega’s passionate response to the death of her father, mother, friends and former times. Other poems repeat the call to get up, leave everything, go where one has never been.
Ms. Vega’s writings are 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.

About the Author

Janine Pommy Vega published her first book, Poems to Fernando, with City Lights in 1968 as part of their City Lights Pocket Poets Series. During the early-1970s, Vega lived as a hermit on the Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian-Peruvian border. Out of this self-imposed exile came Journal of a Hermit and Morning Passage. Her most recent book with Black Sparrow is The Green Piano.

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