City Lights Books
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Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAnne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to con
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Waldman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863166
- Language: English
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Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
$16.95 Add to cartIs it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Miller, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868346
- Language: English
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Because We Say So
$15.95 Add to cart“Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.”–New York Times Book Review
“Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US m
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 872866572
- Language: English
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Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog
$15.95 Add to cartWe live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The “news” has degenera
- Author: Jensen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0872865738
- Language: English
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Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960
$12.95 Read more“As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another’s hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of
- Series: Pocket Poets #14
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865118
- Language: English
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Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
$16.95 Add to cartFrom Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where C?saire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #63
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868702
- Language: English
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What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language
$22.95 Read moreA NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What’s Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis
“What’s Good is, among a great many other things
- Author: Levin Becker, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868761
- Language: English
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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
$17.95 Add to cartWinner – Best Transgender Nonfiction – 2015 Lambda Literary Awards
Best Books of 2014 – Publishers Weekly
Best Books of 2014 – NPR Books
Best Nonficton Books of 2014 – Kirkus Reviews
10 Best Transgender N
- Series: City Lights/Sister Spit
- Author: McBee, Thomas Page
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0872866246
- Language: English
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Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17
$15.95 Add to cartCruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp-witted, taut poems dense with song
- Series: City Lights Spotlight
- Author: Giménez Smith, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867587
- Language: English
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Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61
$15.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize
2018 American Book Award Winner
2018 PEN Oakland Award Winner
Winner of the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry
2018 NCIBA Poetry Book of the
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #61
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0872867455
- Language: English
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
$16.95 Read more“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar de
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867234
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
$19.95 Add to cart2020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
“The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. … this book
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867692
- Language: English
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Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
$13.95 Read moreA concise and illuminating book about the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism.
Spinoza’s theoretical philosophy is one of the
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0872862186
- Language: English
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Howl and Other Poems
$15.95 Add to cartThe prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition!
The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & O
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863107
- Language: English
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In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country
$15.95 Add to cartA haunting exploration of identity, history, displacement, and war from an Arab American perspective
- Author: Adnan, Etel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0872864464
- Language: English
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Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95 Read moreTwenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision prevails.
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868850
- Language: English
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Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington
$13.95 Add to cartChosen a Best Children’s Book of the Year by the Bank Street Center!
Voted a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews!
A biography for younger readers about one of the most inf
- Author: Houtman, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 087286765X
- Language: English
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Secrets of Voodoo
$16.95 Add to cartSecrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward ac
- Author: Rigaud, Milo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0872861716
- Language: English
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City of God
$16.95 Add to cart“City of God is an unsparing account of devastation and empowerment in the age of AIDS. From the body’s first mysterious eroticism to its final humiliation and pain, Gil Cuadros gives voice to both th
- Author: Cuadros, Gil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 087286295X
- Language: English
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Poso Wells
$14.95 Add to cartCelebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemç–£’s first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just c
- Author: Alemán, Gabriela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867552
- Language: English
