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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author 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. 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. M Archive After the End of the World Alexis Pauline Gumbs How to survive the apocalypse: become amphibious & move between worlds; erase the you & the i; exist simultaneously; embody entanglement, water & land, flesh & spirit, gendered & not, before & after.-Recommended by Ivy 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 Mortal Trash Poems Kim Addonizio Chew with your mouth closed and read this book.  —Recommended by Ryan 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 >>>