Poems to Fernando.

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.