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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author 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. Nepantla An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color Christopher Soto Here are reasons to sing, to shiver, to cry, to snap, to bark, to love, to feel-- in resonance. Words to keep near your pillow, and to read on the train, and to keep on your tongue. EVERY POEM HERE IS GOOD. --Recommended by Jared, City Lights Booksellers Time's Language Selected Poems (1959-2018) Margaret Randall Time's Language contains powerful poems of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces (that read like prose poems), recounting a life of resistance, the life of a life-long literary and political revolutionary. 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 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. Proprietary Poems In Proprietary, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. "Please consider / Ocean Beach / out of reach," he writes; in these poems, nothing is beyond the reach of his acuity. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>