     City Lights Publishers Complete Catalog
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Redefining Black Power Reflections on the State of Black America Just published: Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.
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Resistance Victor Serge, an authentic witness of the political and cultural struggles of this century, wrote these poems of Resistancein Orenburg in Central Asia, where he was sent into exile by Stalin in 1933. He eulogizes close friends and comrades and...
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Revolutionary Romanticism A Drunken Boat Anthology Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and...
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Ring of Bone Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) Just released! A new and expanded edition of the classic go-to collection of Lew Welch's poetry, a must for both fans and new readers.
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The Rising of the Ashes Two epic poems focus on the bitter consequences of war and violence in the Middle East
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Riverbed of Memory Pocket Poets Number 49 These are poems written mostly in a time of war, and rooted in the land and people of Nicaragua. Zamora draws deep portraits of women of all classes, often using her own body as a metaphor and starting point. Recalling the years of revolution and...
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Robert Duncan in San Francisco HOT OFF THE PRESS: A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.
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Roman Poems Pocket Poets Number 41 The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the...
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Sacred Drift Essays on the Margins of Islam Peter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of "Black Islam" in...
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Sade A Sudden Abyss The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost completely from circulation in the century. Meanwhile the exegesis of Sade poured from the presses...
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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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San Francisco Chinatown A Guide to Its History and Architecture JUST PUBLISHED! Both a history of America's oldest Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind, written by someone born and raised there.
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San Francisco's Telegraph Hill Revised and Updated Edition The City Lights Foundation has collaborated with the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association to update and reprint David Myrick's classic Telegraph Hill, a beautiful, lavishly illustrated book that is an invaluable community resource documenting the story...
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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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