City Lights Books
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Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader
$24.95 Add to cartEssential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black.
“Filled with insight and energy, this
- Series: Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869261
- Language: English
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Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 16
$15.95 Add to cart- Barbara Jane Reyes is the winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and her work has been reviewed by the National Book Critics Circle.
- These are poems, prayers, psalms, a
- Series: City Lights Spotlight #16
- Author: Reyes, Barbara Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0872867471
- Language: English
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Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie
$17.95 Read moreLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima’s cla
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 087286880X
- Language: English
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The Yage Letters Redux
$17.95 Add to cartThe definitive edition of Burroughs’ seminal epistolary novel about seeking hallucinogenic Yage in South America.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0872864480
- Language: English
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City of Memory and Other Poems
$21.95 Add to cartThe leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico’s most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied
- Author: Pacheco, José Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0872863247
- Language: Spanish
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
$15.95 Read more“A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander’s The N
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 872867382
- Language: English
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Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think
$13.95 Add to cart“Nader’s assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it’s his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essen
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Nader, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 872867056
- Language: English
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In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology
$21.95 Read moreIn Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to the political and literary essays of Pier Paolo Pasolini, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of post-war Italy, and th
- Author: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 087286507X
- Language: English
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Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977
$15.95 Add to cartMeditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade.
Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0872860922
- Language: English
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The Grave on the Wall
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction – Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867900
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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Love Works
$16.95 Add to cartMirikitani was a seminal figure in the SF Asian Arts renaissance of the 1970s. She is known for her activist poetry, her dedication to political causes, and her work with homeless people.
- Series: San Francisco Poet Laureate
- Author: Mirikitani, Janice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 193140402X
- Language: English
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The Gnostics
$16.95 Add to cartGnostics have always sought to “know” rather than to accept dogma and doctrine, often to their peril. This inquiry into Gnosticism examines the character, history, and beliefs of a brave and vigorous
- Author: Lacarrière, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862437
- Language: English
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Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960
$13.95 Add to cart“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy.” Many of Ginsberg’s most famous poems.
Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0872860213
- Language: English
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Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition
$16.95 Add to cartProfound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith, written by radical Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.
“Uncompromising, disturbing . . . Abu-Jamal’s
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867978
- Language: English
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Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$21.95 Add to cartFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Be
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0872862372
- Language: English
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
$23.95 Add to cart“Printer’s ink is the greater explosive.”–Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocke
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0872866793
- Language: English
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History as Mystery
$21.95 Add to cartIn a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history’s victors distort and suppress the documentary record in
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0872863573
- Language: English
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Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools
$18.95 Add to cartFor five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools.
The
- Author: Churchill, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0872864340
- Language: English
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Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border
$15.95 Read moreRecommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed!
The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know “what’s life really like on
- Author: Solis, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867862
- Language: English
