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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Cunt Norton Dodie Bellamy In Cunt Norton, Dodie Bellamy sets her text-ravenous cut-ups loose to devour canonical voices of English literature, as found in The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1975 edition). The texts that emerge from this sexual-linguistic encounter are monstrous, beautiful, unashamed: 33 erotic love poems that lust after the very aesthetic they resist... Ghost Tantras Michael McClure New from City Lights/Grey Fox! Nearly 50 years since its first publication, we present Michael McClure's signature work, "Ghost Tantras," back in print. Pierre Reverdy Pierre Reverdy, Mary Ann Caws Cold Mountain Poems Twenty-Four Poems by H'an-sh'an In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began to work on translating a largely unknown poet... I'm Your Man The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons Beautifly written, impossible to put down, and an absolute must for any Cohen fan! Or, for that matter, for any fan of the worlds of travel, religion and poetry, as well as the inner workings of the music industry. Cohen was such an interesting man... The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia Philip Lamantia, Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, Nancy J. Peters Many poets have contributed to the greatness of City Lights, but few more so than North Beach's own Philip Lamantia (1927-2005). Lamantia published his earliest work in avant-garde magazines when he was 15, then at 16 went to NYC to join the war-exiled Paris surrealists. Known as the foremost American surrealist, he also... Here Come the Warm Jets Alli Warren New Spotlight Poetry! "Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."—Booklist Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClure Joanna McClure Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene. Poems Retrieved Frank O'Hara A reissue of the classic, essential companion to O'Hara's "Collected Poems," with a new foreword by Bill Berkson. Joie de Vivre Selected Poems 1992-2012 Lisa Jarnot A selection from twenty years of poetry from one of the key avant-garde women poets of the post-Language generation. Red Doc > Anne Carson Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with... The Beautifully Worthless Ali Liebegott Back in print! Ali Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Jack Kerouac and David Wojnarowicz. Incarnadine Poems Mary Szybist The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Robert Duncan in San Francisco Michael Rumaker A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>