Forthcoming Books from City Lights Publishers!

Here's a list of what we're working on now, and what we're planning for the immediate future. Take a look, tell your friends and sign up to receive an email alert to let you know as soon as they become available. When you place your order, you'll receive a 30% web-only discount.


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National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Melvin A. Goodman
Now available! Former CIA analyst reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security.
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The Wondrous Mushroom
Mycolatry in Mesoamerica
R. Gordon Wasson
The groundbreaking psychedelic classic about entheogenic mushrooms, shamanism and mesoamerican cultures.
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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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The Beautifully Worthless
Ali Liebegott
A tender, tragic, absurd and highly original voice, Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Jack Kerouac and David Wojnarowicz.
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Cha-Ching!
Ali Liebegott
A tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction.
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The End of San Francisco
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
An elegy for the dream of a radical queer community, and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.
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Joie de Vivre
Selected Poems 1992-2012
Lisa Jarnot
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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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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Nan Domi
An Initiate's Journey into Haitian Voudou
Mimerose Beaubrun
The first and only insider's account of Voudou's private, mystical, interior practice, a compelling story of initiation and transformation.
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Spying on Democracy
A Short History of Government/Corporate Collusion in the Cyber Age
Heidi Boghosian
Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government.