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The Tranquilized Tongue
City Lights Spotlight No. 11

Eric Baus

Latest in the City Lights Spotlight series: If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of The Tranquilized Tongue. Out now!

Woman with Guitar
Memphis Minnie's Blues

Paul Garon, Beth Garon

A vivid portrait of one of the blues' most influential female artists, and the popular poetry of her lyrics.

Tender Buttons
The Corrected Centennial Edition

Gertrude Stein, Seth Perlow

We present a centennial edition of the modernist classic featuring over 100 corrections by Stein herself. The Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions has designated it an MLA Approved Edition. Congrats to editor Seth Perlow!

Border Patrol Nation
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

Todd Miller

Now Available! Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of the U.S. Border Patrol. "What Jeremy Scahill was to Blackwater, Todd Miller is to the U.S. Border Patrol!"--Tom Miller, author, On the Border

Nochita

Dia Felix

Just out from City Lights / Sister Spit. A poetic debut novel, formally experimental, by turns hallucinatory, darkly funny and brutally real. Nochita is tender, fierce, and unforgettable.

Haiti Glass

Lenelle Moïse

New poetry from City Lights/Sister Spit! With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti Glass offers an unflinching look at disaster, desire, and death-defying love.

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!

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