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Founded 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.

 

 

 

Featured Titles from City Lights Publishers

 

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Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Tim Wise
Just out: Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege, and offers ideas on how to move forward.
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Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder
Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories.
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Ether
Ben Ehrenreich
An Earth-bound god whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens.
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Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Joanne Griffith
Just published: Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.
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The Essential Neruda
Selected Poems
Pablo Neruda
This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's...
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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...
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Lunch Poems
Pocket Poets Number 19
Frank O'Hara
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti...
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I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Bayard Rustin, Julian Bond, Michael G Long
Hot off the press: Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth.