Green Piano Poems

For nearly thirty years, Janine Pommy Vega, the archetypal New York Beat, has been performing her intense, incantatory poetry - in Spanish and in English, solo and with her band Tiamalu, on college campuses and in cafes, nightclubs, schools, and prisons. Her new collection of poems - the first since Mad Dogs of Trieste (Black Sparrow, 2000) - presents new work in three of her signature modes: powerful protests against the depravities of the prison system and the Washington war machine; tender lyrics about family and friends; and remarkably vivid poetic postcards from her travels, this time through Italy. "Vega's poems reflect a deeply felt and aching knowledge," wrote Publishers Weekly of her previous collection; "they 'go' (as Kerouac said) - their own patient, unadorned, and dignified way."Vega, Janine Pommy is the author of 'Green Piano Poems', published 2005 under ISBN 9781574232073 and ISBN 157423207X.