City Lights Books
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
$13.95 Read moreAn honest look at racism in the United States, and the liberal platitudes that attempt to conceal it.
This book offers an honest and rigorous exploration of what Jensen refers to as the depraved nature
- Author: Jensen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0872864499
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Stories
$17.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times’s and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association’s Bestseller!
Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America
- Series: City Lights Noir
- Author: Cooder, Ry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865193
- Language: English
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Nan Domi: An Initiate’s Journey Into Haitian Vodou
$21.95 Read more“This new and valuable book delves into the ‘interior’ experience of voodoo, as opposed to the usual outsider focus on ritual and cosmology. In telling the story of her own initiation and painstaking
- Author: Beaubrun, Mimerose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0872865746
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22
$15.95 Read moreOne of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023
Metamorphoses springs from Ovid’s epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience. I
- Series: City Lights Spotlight
- Author: Kennedy, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0872869008
- Language: English
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Poems of Arab Andalusia
$15.95 Add to cartThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa’id, who wanted poems “whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose l
- Author: Franzen, Cola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862429
- Language: Spanish
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Every Day We Get More Illegal
$15.95 Add to cartVoted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Library Journal
Included in Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year
One of LitHub’s most Anticipated Books of the Year!
A State of the Union from the n
- Author: Herrera, Juan Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0872868281
- Language: English
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Funeral Diva
$16.95 Add to cartFuneral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.
“Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,
- Author: Sneed, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0872868117
- Language: English
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
$18.95 Add to cartCharles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifet
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0872864928
- Language: English
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Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography
$16.95 Read more“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”–Angela Y. Davis, from the foreword
Herbert Marcuse was one of the twentieth century’s most unlikely pop stars: a
- Author: Thorkelson, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867854
- Language: English
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The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Award for Poetry
Beginning with “long poem of these States,” The Fall of America is the follow up book to Ginsberg’s Planet News … chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: June 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0872860639
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself
$14.95 Add to cartA new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.
A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative is the powerful story of an
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865274
- Language: English
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The First Third
$16.95 Add to cartImmortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care a
- Author: Cassady, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0872860051
- Language: English
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
$13.95 Add to cart“In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book.”–Elizabeth Kolber
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Scranton, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0872866696
- Language: English
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I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
$35.00 Add to cartBAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, o
- Author: Rustin, Bayard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0872865789
- Language: English
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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
$16.95 Read moreMexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused ove
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Gibler, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865177
- Language: English
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New Testaments: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartStories of working-class Mexican America, penned by one of the contemporary legends of Chicanx literature.
“Gilb’s familiar signature intimacy brings us face to face with marginal housing, gritty and e
- Author: Gilb, Dagoberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869318
- Language: English
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All Over Coffee
$30.00 Read moreIn February 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing an enigmatic feature called “All Over Coffee.” Almost immediately, letters of love and hate, confusion and praise poured in. Accustomed to
- Author: Madonna, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0872864561
- Language: English
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My Body Is Paper: Stories and Poems
$17.95 Add to cart“Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bra
- Author: Cuadros, Gil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869091
- Language: English
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Cartoons
$16.95 Add to cartOne of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring !
Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales.
“The true surrealist
- Author: Schluter, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869288
- Language: English
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The First Third
$16.95 Add to cartImmortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care a
- Author: Cassady, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0872860051
- Language: English
