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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Heaven Is All Goodbyes Pocket Poets Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin "This is resistance as sound."—Claudia Rankine Why Poetry Matthew Zapruder An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. Hanging On Our Own Bones Poems Judy Grahn "As for what we do with borders, we cross and uncross them, / As for what we do with curses, we put them in purses / And fling them to blazes." —Recommended by Ryan Do You Have a Band? Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City Daniel Kane During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange. Gondwana Poems Nathaniel Tarn Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the end of the world while looking out at the ethereal blue ice of Antarctica, Nathaniel Tarn writes: "They said back then / there was a frozen continent / in those high latitudes encircling the globe... The Easy Body Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta —Recommended by Ivy Sallies, Romps, Portraits and Send Offs Selected Prose 2000-2018 A delightful and cantankerous collection of essays and criticism about good poets and bad poets, homicidal musicians, obsessive music collecting and the eerie delights of San Francisco fog. A perfect introduction to the local bard's tender and curmudgeonly oeuvre. —Recommended by Micheal, City Lights Bookstore Holy Ghost City Lights Spotlight No. 15 David Brazil Anarcho-socialism meets Christian mysticism in an Occupy veteran's avant-garde poems. In Memory of an Angel David Shapiro The first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School prodigy and master of lyrical abstraction David Shapiro. Selected Poems 1962-1985 Clark Coolidge Clark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. This Selected Poems will be how Coolidge's revolutionary early works will be read for generations to come. The volume includes an Introduction by Bill Berkson, who writes: "From the heights each poem appears to take its own peculiar plunge. mary wants to be a superwoman Erica Lewis Being of African American, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis' poems recount her friends and family's—especially the women's—complex history with race, gender, and class in America, what it means to live with your own history, and how to move on. Each poem is framed by phrases from the lyrics of Stevie Wonder’s Motown records... Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry Pocket Poets Series Number 17 Malcolm Lowry, Earle A. Birney First collection of Lowry's poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Poems Joy Harjo More than a book. More than poetry. These are the words.—Recommended by Ryan Collected Lyrics 1970 - 2015 Patti Smith Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith's Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Horses, Smith’s groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs and liberally illustrated with... 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>