City Lights Books
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The Meaning of Freedom
$15.95 Read moreWant to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of Freedom
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis’ life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamenta
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0872865800
- Language: English
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Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62
$15.95 Read more2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry – Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance
2022 California Book Award Finalist
Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #62
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868753
- Language: English
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Against Empire
$19.95 Add to cartRichly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent interv
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0872862984
- Language: English
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Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice
$17.95 Add to cartNine women who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for social justice–movement leaders, organizers, and cultural workers–tell their life stories in their own words. Sharing their most vulnera
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Lewis, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868745
- Language: English
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The Crystal Text
$18.95 Read moreClark Coolidge’s book-length meditation on a crystal–long considered a masterpiece of American avant-garde poetry–returns in a new edition.
“No other poet ever has so exquisitely, and sometimes also
- Author: Coolidge, Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0872869040
- Language: English
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Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice
$16.95 Read moreRising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States.
While people of color are fast becoming the ma
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Kolhatkar, Sonali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868729
- Language: English
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
$15.95 Add to cartA compilation of Charles Bukowski’s underground articles from his column “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” appears here in book form. Bukowski’s reasoning for self-describing himself as a ‘dirty old man’ rin
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 01 1973
- ISBN10: 0872860744
- Language: English
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Lunch Poems
$8.95 Add to cartEssential poems by the late New York poet.
Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O’Hara’s freshest an
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: O’Hara, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0872860353
- Language: English
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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
$16.95 Add to cartThis bilingual collection of Neruda’s most essential poems is indispensable.
Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that dr
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0872864286
- Language: Spanish
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The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
$17.95 Add to cartthe delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens.
“mimi tempestt writes like a third te
- Author: Tempestt, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0872869253
- Language: English
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The Gilda Stories
$16.95 Add to cart*Recommended by Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club!
*Voted One of Book Riot’s Most Influential Queer Books & Horror Novels of All Time!
Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, there
- Author: Gomez, Jewelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 872866742
- Language: English
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
$16.95 Add to cartA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy,
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: June 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0872863298
- Language: English
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Howl and Other Poems
$7.95 Add to cartThe landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems
HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 57
- Publish Date: January 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0872860175
- Language: English
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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press’s 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist
“Written from his native Gaza, A
- Author: Abu Toha, Mosab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868605
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27
$18.95 Read moreExpanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima’s Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her pas
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #27
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868796
- Language: English
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Story of the Eye
$9.95 Read moreBataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.
A classic of pornographic literature, Sto
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 103
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0872862097
- Language: English
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality
$21.95 Read moreTaboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality–Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective.
Bataille challenges any single discourse on
- Series: Death and Sensuality
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0872861902
- Language: English
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Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
$21.95 Add to cartHow “colorblindness” in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Wise, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865088
- Language: English
