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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.

<<< 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date State of Siege Juan Goytisolo A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where... Redefining Black Power Reflections on the State of Black America Joanne Griffith Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life. 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... Danger and Beauty Jessica Hagedorn Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience."Jessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who... Constellations of Miro, Breton Paul Hammond During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalan painter Joan Miro created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andre Breton... The Shadow and its Shadow Surrealist Writings on the Cinema Paul Hammond Here is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. Forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical essays document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. The essayists include such names as... There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn Carla Harryman Carla Harryman is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer. Her works include Memory Play, Animal Instincts, In the Mode of, Vice, The Middle, Property, Under the Bridge, and... Voices of the Chicago Eight A Generation on Trial Tom Hayden, Frank Condon, Ron Sossi Dramatically edited transcripts from the explosive 1969 conspiracy trial are paired with historic contextual writings to provide the essential Chicago Conspiracy handbook Writings For A Democratic Society The Tom Hayden Reader Tom Hayden The best of Tom Hayden's writings from the turbulent 1960s to the Iraq war. Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems A Book of Lives Juan Felipe Herrera, Artemio Rodriguez The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loteria images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium... Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America Perry Higman The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love, and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity, and the... 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... All That's Left Jack Hirschman Poems for social justice by San Francisco's Poet Laureate Front Lines Pocket Poets Number 55 Jack Hirschman In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this... <<< 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >>>