     City Lights Publishers Complete Catalog
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Here Come the Warm Jets City Lights Spotlight No. 10 "Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."—Booklist
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The Wondrous Mushroom Mycolatry in Mesoamerica The groundbreaking psychedelic classic about entheogenic mushrooms, shamanism and mesoamerican cultures.
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The Awakener A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties Helen Weaver's intimate memoir of love and friendship with Jack Kerouac and the Beats
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Illusions of Security Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World The government is spying on us, accessing our email, our bank records, and our cell phone calls. Maureen Webb exposes the shadowy global network of surveillance that is infringing on the privacy and civil rights of people worldwide.
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Ring of Bone Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) 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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Ink on Paper As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Musashi, Sengai...
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Ploughing the Clouds The Search for Irish Soma In Ploughing the Clouds, Peter Lamborn Wilson suggests that the ancient Celts of Ireland may have possessed a "Soma" ceremony similar to one described in the Rig Veda, one of the oldest scriptures in the world. Written in India in 1500 BC, the Rig...
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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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Between Barack and a Hard Place Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama How Barack Obama's rise is reshaping the meaning of race in the United States today.
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Colorblind The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today
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Dear White America Letter to a New Minority Just out: Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege, and offers ideas on how to move forward.
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Insurgent Muse Life and Art at the Woman's Building In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the...
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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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The Bomb Howard Zinn's personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the U.S. bombings of Royan and Hiroshima
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