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Stray Poems
San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6

Alejandro Murguía

Just Arrived! New work from San Francisco's first Latino Poet Laureate! "In the city of poets, Murguía has become the activist voice of refugees and exiles—as so many of us are, even as natives—at the center of the Americas. Disguised by its sensuous intimacy, soothing and ennobling, his is a poetry that arms the resistance."—Dagoberto Gilb

The Wondrous Mushroom
Mycolatry in Mesoamerica

R. Gordon Wasson

The groundbreaking psychedelic classic about entheogenic mushrooms, shamanism and mesoamerican cultures.

Nan Dòmi
An Initiate's Journey into Haitian Vodou

Mimerose Beaubrun

Just released! The first and only insider's account of Vodou's private, mystical, interior practice, a compelling story of initiation and transformation.

Ghost Tantras

Michael McClure

New from City Lights/Grey Fox! 50 years since its first publication, we present Michael McClure's signature work, Ghost Tantras, back in print. Grahhr!

An Army of Lovers

Juliana Spahr, David Buuck

An Army of Lovers re-asks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics? "Fantastical, lyrical, whimsical and wildly experimental, An Army of Lovers is as serious as it is absurd." —Christopher Higgs, HTMLGIANT

Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames

Beth Lisick

Hot off the press! "Beth Lisick's kaleidoscopic whirlwind tour through her secret shames is the ultimate joyride for those of us who enjoy cringe-worthy embarrassment, genuine pathos, and an overdosing amount of schadenfreude."—Michael Ian Black

Forest of a Thousand Daemons
A Hunter's Saga

D.O. Fagunwa

Back in print! A classic work of African literature and one of the first novels to be written in any African language returns. Translated by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.

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

Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance

Heidi Boghosian

"Everyone of us is under the omniscent magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies. How do we respond to this smog of surveillance? Start by reading Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian."—Bill Moyers

Poems Retrieved

Frank O'Hara

A reissue of the classic, essential companion to O'Hara's "Collected Poems," with a new foreword by Bill Berkson.

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