     City Lights Publishers Complete Catalog
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Nine Alexandrias Pocket Poets Number 56 Following his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response...
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Sarajevo Blues From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout...
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San Francisco Beat Talking with the Poets San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and...
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When I Was a Poet Pocket Poets Number 60 An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats."
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The Tribe Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular...
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Medusa The Fourth Kingdom Among the most unusual narratives to emerge from Europe in recent years, Medusa: The Fourth Kingdom reexamines the myth of the petrifying Gorgon, offering a new perspective on feminity, passion, and self-creation. The mythological figure of Medusa...
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The Island of My Hunger Cuban Poetry Today A dramatic selection of work by a new generation of Cuban poets to whom North American readers have as yet had little or no access.
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Beat Atlas A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America The ultimate tour guide for those interested in the Beats and their travels "on the road."
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Beat Generation in New York A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New York.
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Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs.
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Travels With Ginsberg A Postcard Book, Allen Ginsberg Photographs 1944-1997 Allen Ginsberg was a serious shutterbug who delighted in taking candid snapshots of friends and fellow writers, but up until now readers have had little chance to consider the "poetic" world of his photographs. Here in the form of twenty detachable...
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To Die for the People A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America
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M'Hashish "Ah," said Hassan, "I don't believe in the world. There's another world where life is different." These are stories of that world. The word m'hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of "behashished" or "full of hashish") is used only in a literal sense, but...
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This War Called Love From Mexico City to San Francisco's Mission District, nothing comes easy-in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. Authentic and honest, these nine stories...
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