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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoake, VA, 1843 Percival Everett Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document―a guidebook for the American slave owner. Selected Poems 1950-2012 Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. 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 The Summer of Dead Birds Ali Liebegott A poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse. Oculus Poems "The poems in Oculus are rangy, protean, contradictory. They offer an alternative to the selfie, that static reduction of a person to her most photogenic poses."—The New Yorker Grabbing Pussy Karen Finley In a breathless cascade of poetry and prose, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today's American politics. 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. 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. 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. Registers of Illuminated Villages Poems Tarfia Faizullah Some of my favorite poems from this year are in this book! This collection of poems GOES! Tarfia punctuates this collection into different registers that tackle migration, and displacement. - Recommended by Jared 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! 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>