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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author To Float in the Space Between A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight Terrance Hayes In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of writings and drawings enacts one poet's search for another. Essential Essays Culture, Politics, & the Art of Poetry Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Trickster Feminism Anne Waldman "There's a new Anne Waldman book and that's all I have to say. You better read it."––Recommended by Chris C., City Lights Publishers The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way On Writers and Writing Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne A collection of columns, reviews, introductions, interviews, and previously uncollected stories revealing the method behind the madness and critical acumen of Charles Bukowski. small siren "This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw's boat." —Gillian Conoley Cruel Futures City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 Carmen Giménez Smith A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. Destruction of Man Abraham Smith Some say Abraham Smith's live readings are the best in America, except it's more accurate to say he howls rather than reads. So, better to call his readings hollerings, which often times might take place next to a tree. Listen to his howl via the flexi-disc included in DESTRUCTION OF MAN. Wonderland Poems Matthew Dickman Luminous and hypnotic, this dynamic collection explores the dark edges of childhood, violence, race, class, and masculinity, by one of the most fearless poets of his generation. Invocation to Daughters City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16 Barbara Jane Reyes Volume 16 in the City Lights Spotlight Series: Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. venture of the infinite man Pablo Neruda Neruda's long-overlooked third book of poetry, critical in his poetic evolution, now translated into English for the very first time! Heaven Is All Goodbyes Pocket Poets Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin "This is resistance as sound."—Claudia Rankine Good Stock Strange Blood Dawn Lundy Martin "Like you, I am unforgiving. It might be a perversion of my blood, inherited like sore." —Recommended by Jared 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. Mortal Trash Poems Kim Addonizio Chew with your mouth closed and read this book.  —Recommended by Ryan 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>