{"title":"Janine Pommy Vega","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"green-piano-book-janine-pommy-vega-9781574232073","title":"The Green Piano","description":"Poems from an ever-wandering poet, Janine Pommy Vega.  American Book Review wrote, “She is changed by her journey through the world, and she changes the world through her words.“  Janine Pommy Vega writes with quiet command of her life and times and of our shared American present. Here are protests against the depravities of the prison system, political poems grounded in closely observed human particulars. Here too are tender lyrics about family, lovers, and friends; celebrations of the natural and domestic worlds of upstate New York; and remarkably vivid letters home from spiritual sojourns through Italy, Germany, and the former Yugoslavia.  “Vega’s poems reflect a deeply felt and aching knowledge. They ‘go’ (as Kerouac said) their own patient, unadorned, and dignified way,” wrote Publishers Weekly of her previous collection, Mad Dogs of Trieste.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49929995485457,"sku":"CIN157423207XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50502575685905,"sku":"CIN157423207XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/157423207X.jpg?v=1750926604"},{"product_id":"estamos-aqui-book-janine-pommy-vega-9780979097232","title":"Estamos Aqui","description":"Everybody talks about the plight of illegal immigrants in the US, but who gives us their own voices, tells us of the daily lives, of these shadow workers? \u003ci\u003eEstamos Aqui\u003c\/i\u003e-We Are Here-a heartstirring collection of poems written by migrant workers, speaks of joy and heartbreak in the direct voices of Mexican and Central American migrant farmworkers. Presented in both Spanish and English, these poems ultimately succeed in humanizing them, revealing them as our neighbors. In workshops after a day's backbreaking, sunbaked labor at migrant camps in upstate New York sponsored by the GENESEO Migrant Center, and led by renowned Beat poet Janine Pommy Vega, here came poems of home, of crossing borders, of the joys and agonies of work. Until now, there's really been no way to tap into the inner worlds of the Latino pickers of the produce that feeds the majority of our populace, while their small earnings return to their families back home. Now, with \u003ci\u003eEstamos Aqui\u003c\/i\u003e, we realize that we are in this together, a relationship to evolve, not a problem to solve. The fourth book in the Bowery Books Poetry Series, \u003ci\u003eEstamos Aqui\u003c\/i\u003e is a must for those studying illegal immigrant farmworkers, interested in contemporary Spanish-English poetry translations, having an awareness of the relationship of outsider arts, arts education, and the political intricacies of US immigration policy. 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To walk this spiral is called threading the maze, which means both to ascend and to go deep within. This becomes a guiding emblem of her pilgrimages to sites of female spiritual and temporal power, from the Irish countryside to the Amazon jungle to the high mountain cultures of Nepal.  \"Fascinating people, places, and landscapes come alive at the touch of Vega's observant eye and open heart. Tracking the Serpent takes the reader on an exciting journey, as cultural exploration ignites dramatic self-discovery and spiritual insight.\" --Miranda Shaw  \"With poetry one line, in prose a steady mind. Vega learned from poetry how to use details, with prose, to keep track of time. I really respect this book.\" --Gregory Corso  \"In these remarkable accounts, full of color and suspense, Vega carries us along on the strength of her own urgency to places few of us will ever see for ourselves. An informative guide and a brave one, she never ceases to question her own assumptions. For the armchair traveler, these are splendid excursions.\" --Hettie Jones  Janine Pommy Vega, Beat Generation writer, performer, and musician, is the author of twelve books. For many years she has worked with Poets in the Schools, and she is a member of PEN's Prison Writing Committee.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50469634769169,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469636899089,"sku":"CIN0872863271G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53153215774993,"sku":"CIN0872863271A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872863271.jpg?v=1751170896"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-janine-pommy-vega.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}