Recently Released Books from City Lights Publishers!

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Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames
Beth Lisick
Hot off the press! Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, a collection of one woman's most humiliating moments, revealed with wit and gusto.
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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.
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Here Come the Warm Jets
Alli Warren
Just in! "Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."—Booklist
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Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
Heidi Boghosian
The government is spying on you, collecting phone records, and accessing your online activity. This is not only unacceptable, it's unconstitutional. National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian provides the back story. Available NOW.
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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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Joie de Vivre
Selected Poems 1992-2012
Lisa Jarnot
New Spotlight Poetry: A selection from twenty years of poetry from one of the key avant-garde women poets of the post-Language generation.
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National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Melvin A. Goodman
Former CIA analyst Mel Goodman reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security.
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Cha-Ching!
Ali Liebegott
New from City Lights/Sister Spit! A tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction.
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The Beautifully Worthless
Ali Liebegott
Back in print! Ali Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Jack Kerouac and David Wojnarowicz.
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Arguing for Our Lives
A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog
Robert Jensen
With public discourse more skewed than ever by big money's propaganda, our future hinges on our capacity for critical thinking.



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