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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.

<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date Apart from Freud Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis Jonathan Cohen Diverging from the vituperative debates between the "Freud bashers" and the orthodox Freudians, this in-depth investigation of psychoanalysis exposes Freud's specious background assumptions in biology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and moral... Where Shadows Will Selected Poems 1988-2008 Norma Cole First volume of the new City Lights Spotlight series: selected poems by a major avant-garde woman poet. White Hand Society The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg Peter Conners How Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together: the inside story. Los Angeles Stories Ry Cooder Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories. Animations Pocket Poets Number 45 Adam Cornford Speculative and yet impassioned, Adam Cornford's poems animate in the same breath his interior landscape and the terrain of everyday life. Like a lens, his writing can concentrate the light of speech to reveal a world hidden in a single metaphor. Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle Pocket Poets Number 8 Gregory Corso "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso’s individual (therefore universal) desire." – Allen Ginsberg Save Twilight: selected poems Pocket Poets Number 53 Julio Cortazar Selected Poems The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music... City of God Gil Cuadros Gil Cuadros published stories and poems in Indivisible, High Risk 2, and Blood Whispers. His work is also on the compact disc, Verdict and the Violence: Poet's Response to the LA Uprising. He was awarded the 1991 Brody Literature Fellowship, and was... The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood Pocket Poets Number 57 Kamau Daaood A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the spoken word movement, these poems soar and sway with the syncopation and melodies of jazz. Portraits, chronicles, incantations and invocations, drawn from a lifetime of prolific activity. From his early... Paper Conspiracies Susan Daitch The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock. The Powers of the Word Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943 René Daumal Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, essayist, philosopher and translator, Sanscrit scholar and pupil of Gurdjieff, Daumal was a founder of the... The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects Alexandra David-Neel, Michael Lally This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend... The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis NOW AVAILABLE! Angela Davis' first book in nearly a decade, and her only book of speeches on racism, community, freedom, and politics in the United States. Indians in Overalls Jaime de Angulo The best-known work by the eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, Indians in Overalls is a fascinating account of his first linguistic field trip-in 1921-to the Achumawi tribe of northeastern California. The Pit River tribe had lived in the barren... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>