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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Nan Domi
An Initiate's Journey into Haitian Voudou
Mimerose Beaubrun
Coming this fall: 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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Forest of A Thousand Daemons
A Hunter's Saga
Daniel O. Fagunwa
The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
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Here Come the Warm Jets
Alli Warren
The second coming of gurlesque, "Here Come the Warm Jets" is the highly anticipated, swaggering debut of Alli Warren.
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Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames
Beth Lisick
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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Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Heidi Boghosian
Coming soon: Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government.
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An Army of Lovers
Juliana Spahr, David Buuck
In the age of Occupy, "An Army of Lovers" re-asks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics?
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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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Culture of Cruelty
How America's Elite Demonize the Poor, Valorize the Rich and Jeopardize the Future
Tim Wise
Forthcoming: A scalding indictment of how the wealthy influence the national economy, politics, and media to disadvantage those already less fortunate.
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Border Patrol Nation
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Todd Miller
Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of U.S. Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for free society.
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Ghost Tantras
Michael McClure
Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths, McClure describes these tantras as "ceremonies to change the nature of reality."