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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.

<<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date Urban Bliss Janice Eidus Babette Bliss, the decidedly modern heroine of this comical novel, suffers from an unsettling problem: ambivalence. She has taken leave from her job with an avant-garde New York theater to face her dilemmas concerning her marriage, career, and soul... Vito Loves Geraldine Janice Eidus In these eighteen stories Janice Eidus, with comic and tender irony, casts a sharp eye upon contemporary myths of romance, rebellion, and... Forest of a Thousand Daemons A Hunter's Saga D.O. Fagunwa Back in print! After more than twenty years out of print, a classic of African literature returns. Translated by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Crusade 2.0 The West's Resurgent War on Islam John Feffer Why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and what can be done to stop it. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George... At Sea A Poem for Pablo Neruda Lawrence Ferlinghetti EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS! Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea". The Beat Generation in San Francisco A Literary Tour Bill Morgan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack &... City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology Lawrence Ferlinghetti "This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Even though some say that... Ends and Beginnings City Lights Review No. 6 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Robert Anbian, Amiri Baraka, Alberto Blanco, William S. Burroughs, Andrei Codrescu, Susan Etlinger, Dario Fo, Barry Gifford, J.T. Gillett, Allen Ginsberg, Howard Hart, Elaine Katzenberger, Phillip M. Klasky, Steve Kowit, James Laughlin, D.H. Lawrence... Life Studies, Life Stories Drawings Lawrence Ferlinghetti Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some "disastered by life," some with incisive or caustic words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghetti's graphic work and... Pictures of the Gone World Pocket Poets Number 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould How the U.S. war in Afghanistan has spread to Pakistan; how Russia, India, China, and Iran are involved; and the long term consequences for America. Atomik Aztex Sesshu Foster In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism... World Ball Notebook Sesshu Foster A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations. <<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>