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City Lights Publications In addition to our world-renowned bookstore, City Lights is a publishing company, offering 12-20 new titles each year and an extensive backlist of quality fiction and nonfiction titles. Founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1955, with nearly 200 books in print, City Lights publishes cutting-edge fiction, poetry, memoirs, literary translations and books on vital social and political issues. Here you'll find a selection of our most recent books and some we'd like to feature, and also a complete listing of our books, searchable by author and title. For more information on City Lights Publishers, see our Publisher's Home page.

<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Heaven and Other Poems Jack Kerouac Donald Allen, the late great editor of the Evergreen Review at Grove Press and editor of the seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, first met Jack Kerouac in 1956 when he and Allen Ginsberg came to visit at his West Village apartment... Hectic Ethics Francisco Hinojosa Unlike many Latin American writers whose work has been published in the United States, Francisco Hinojosa does not rely on magical realism, exotic recipes or cultural nostalgia. Rather, his stories convey a mercilessly sardonic view of family and... Hello, I'm Special How Individuality Became the New Conformity Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty that they are one of a kind: Individuality is the new conformity. Here Come the Warm Jets City Lights Spotlight No. 10 Alli Warren "Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."—Booklist The Historic Unfulfilled Promise Howard Zinn First-ever collection of Howard Zinn's articles from The Progressive (1980–2009) offer timeless analysis and advocacy for freedom, democracy, and social change in the United States. History as Mystery Michael Parenti Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work."Michael Parenti, always... Horses in the Air and Other Poems Jorge Guillén Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge Guillen's luminous poetry, marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision, deserves to be more widely known to readers... Howl and Other Poems Pocket Poets Number 4 Allen Ginsberg The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social... Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard Paul Bowles These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of... I Must Resist Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters Bayard Rustin, Julian Bond, Michael G Long BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth. The Impossible A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia Georges Bataille In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... Impossible Princess Kevin Killian Impossible Princess is a book John Rechy's or Dennis Cooper's characters would read In a Shallow Grave James Purdy Purdy does not celebrate the wonders of our lives; he digs under the flesh, deals with the howling of our nighttime existence, the rough arithmetic of our dreams. He is also a very funny writer, one who captures the particular idiom of women and men... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>