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Etel Adnan IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER COUNTRY A mosaic of lyrical vignettes, at once deeply personal and political, set against the turbulent backdrop of Arab/Western relations, from the violent legacy of T.E. Lawrence to the contemporary catastrophes of Lebanon and the war on Iraq. 0-87286-446-4 $14.95 $10.47

Rafael Alberti CONCERNING THE ANGELS Translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno Great, dark Spanish masterpiece, on par with Neruda's Residencia en la Tierra and García Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York. Bilingual text. 0-87286-297-6 $12.95

Ammiel Alcalay, ed. KEYS TO THE GARDEN New Israeli Writing Explosive fiction, interviews, and poetry by the mizrahim (Oriental Jews) in Israel today. 0-87286-308-5 $21.95

Ammiel Alcalay MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE Introduction by Juan Goytisolo In a mix of personal narrative, political commentary, and literary criticism, Alcalay surveys Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/Palestinean conflict, and the war in Bosnia. 0-87286-360-3 $17.95

Roberta Allen AMAZON DREAM The real story of one woman's journey into the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. 0-87286-270-4 $10.95

Nuria Amat QUEEN COCAINE A Novel Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush Following the footsteps of a writer and journalist persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman, Rat, embarks on an adventure in the Colombian jungle, an adventure where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges unharmed. 0-87286-435-9 $13.95

Sinan Antoon I'JAAM An Iraqi Rhapsody An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam’s Iraq. 0-87286-457-x $11.95

Antonin Artaud ARTAUD ANTHOLOGY Translated by Jack Hirschman Essays on literature, theater, travel, prophetic and visionary texts. 0-87286-000-0 $14.95

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Shimon Ballas OUTCAST Soussan’s narrative moves in and out of the present, the recent and more distant past, providing a unique and intimate chronicle of Iraq’s contemporary political history. His friends and comrades provide pathways into different aspects of Iraqi history, political resistance, repression, and allegiance. 0-87286-481-2 $13.95

Molly Barker SECRET LANGUAGE 176 pen-and-ink drawings form a cycle of six stories that explore the indestructible human spirit. 0-87286-328-X hardcover $12.95

Georges Bataille EROTISM Death and Sensuality Translated by Mary Dalwood Witches' Sabbaths, orgies, mysticism, cruelty, war, sacrifice, transgression and ecstasy. 0-87286-190-2 $16.95

Georges Bataille THE IMPOSSIBLE Translated by Robert Hurley A very strange, perhaps impossible, journey beyond sex and philosophy; yet a text crucial to the exposition of his most important thought. 0-87286-262-3 $12.95

Georges Bataille STORY OF THE EYE Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Originally published under a pseudonym, this first novel of Bataille's is a legendary shocker. 0-87286-209-7 $9.95

Georges Bataille THE TEARS OF EROS Translated by Peter Connor On the track of violence and the erotic through art theory, philosophy, anthropology, and the history of consciousness. With 200 illustrations from cave art to the present. 0-87286-222-4 $18.95

Charles Baudelaire TWENTY PROSE POEMS Translated by Michael Hamburger Epigrammatic portrait of a sensuous and decadent Parisian society. Bilingual text. 0-87286-216-X $8.95

Dovid Bergelson THE SHADOWS OF BERLIN Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Tales of Jewish life in Berlin at the precarious moment between world wars. ISBN 0-87286-444-8 Paperback, 120 pp $14.95

Alberto Blanco DAWN OF THE SENSES Edited by Juvenal Acosta Pocket Poets Series No. 52 Dynamic and influential force in the new poetry of Mexico. 0-87286-309-3 $12.95

Max Blechman, ed. REVOLUTIONARY ROMANTICISM A Drunken Boat Anthology In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow. 0-87286-351-4 $15.95

Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton A PANORAMA OF AMERICAN FILM NOIR (1941–1953) Translated from the French by Paul Hammond A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir’s dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America. 0-87286-412-X $16.95

Stefano Bortolussi HEAD ABOVE WATER Translated by Anne Milano Appel A City Lights Italian Voices Title Read a recent interview with Stefano Bortolussi Plagued by guilt over the drowning of his younger brother, Italian writer Cardo Mariano is strangely terrified by life. When he is finally forced to confront his past and his evasions, he learns to face his fear and finds that there are second chances after all. 0-87286-426-x $11.95

Paul Bowles A HUNDRED CAMELS IN THE COURTYARD Diverging stories of life in a land where cannabis customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. 0-87286-002-7 $8.95

Serge Bramly MACUMBA The Teachings of Maria-José, Mother of the Gods Philosophy and practice of rich Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition, explained by Maria-José, a Mother of the Gods. Many photographs of complex ceremonial life. 0-87286-286-0 $14.95

Bertolt Brecht STORIES OF MR. KEUNER Translated from the German by Martin Chalmers Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, Stories of Mr. Keuner is the precipitate of Brecht's experience of a world in political and cultural flux, a world of revolution, civil war, world war, cultural efflorescence, Nazism, Stalinism, and the Cold War– in short, the first half of the twentieth century. 0-87286-383-2 $9.95

André Breton ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK HUMOR Translated by Mark Polizzotti Acerbic, iconoclastic, and outrageous writing by forty-five specialists in l'humour noir –from Swift to Duchamp–with commentary by Breton. 0-87286-321-2 $18.95

James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy J. Peters, eds. RECLAIMING SAN FRANCISCO: HISTORY, POLITICS, CULTURE A fascinating unearthing of lost, forgotten, and obscured histories of San Francisco. "A breathtaking ride through a dozen different cities called San Francisco." –Mike Davis 0-87286-335-2 $17.95

Rebecca Brown ANNIE OAKLEY'S GIRL "Simply one of the best lesbian writers around... Annie Oakley's Girl is stunning." — Dorothy Allison 0-87286-279-8 $9.95

Rebecca Brown THE DOGS A Modern Bestiary Told in the medieval form of the bestiary, The Dogs is the story of a contemporary American woman tormented by a pack of Doberman pinschers that invade her home. 0-87286-344-1 $10.95

Rebecca Brown THE END OF YOUTH The End of Youth is a collection of thirteen linked stories, essays and rants about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. 0-87286-418-9 $11.95

Rebecca Brown THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU In The Last Time I Saw You author Rebecca Brown returns to the obsessive, darkly humorous voice that has earned her comparisons to Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes. 0-87286-447-2 $12.95

Rebecca Brown THE TERRIBLE GIRLS In the contemporary Gothic world, the terrible girls in these interlinking stories are on the prowl, relentless in love, and ruthless in betrayal. 0-87286-266-6 $11.95

Charles Bukowski THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN "Crazy romantic tales by the poet laureate of the L.A. netherworld." -- Newsweek 0-87286-156-2 $14.95

Charles Bukowski NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN ". . . a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life." – Publishers Weekly 0-87286-074-4 $14.95

Charles Bukowski TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS More of the master's inimitable down-but-never-out stories. Sequel to The Most Beautiful Woman in Town. 0-87286-155-4 $14.95

Roger Burbach and Ben Clarke SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE U.S. WAR Beyond the Curtain of Smoke Co-published by City Lights and Freedom Voices An informative collection of essays by journalists, activists, and political theorists providing the historical, political, and intellectual context for understanding the events and the consequences of September 11 and America's "War on Terrorism." 0-87286-404-9 $11.95

William S. Burroughs THE BURROUGHS FILE Vintage W.S.B–malefic, mordant, hilarious–with pages from the legendary cut-up scrapbooks. 0-87286-152-X $14.95

William S. Burroughs THE YAGE LETTERS REDUX For this new edition Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts to untangle the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance in his wide-ranging introduction. Also included in this edition are extensive materials, never before published, by both Burroughs and Ginsberg that shed new light on their adventures in exploration and writing. 0-87286-448-0 $13.95

William S. Burroughs THE YAGE LETTERS Epistolary novel in which Burroughs writes Ginsberg from the Amazon about his search for the ultimate hallucinogenic experience. 0-87286-004-3 $10.95

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Dino Campana ORPHIC SONGS Translated by Isidore Lawrence Salomon Pocket Poets Series No. 54 Written on the eve of the First World War, Campana's poems leap across the boundaries of language. Bilingual text. 0-087286-340-9 $12.95

Chris Carlsson, ed. THE POLITICAL EDGE Cultural and political trends erupt in San Francisco, a city that thrives on dissent and new ideas. Revealing emergent political energies and a new dynamics that will reshape urban politics nationwide, 25 activists address such concerns as the failure of political representation and the electoral process, housing scams and displacement, urban ecology and transportation, the fate of the arts, insurgent subcultures, and utopian proposals for transformational politics. 1-93140-405-4 A City Lights Foundation title $17.95

Neal Cassady THE FIRST THIRD Real-life hero of Kerouac's novels tells his own fast-driving story as a hustling, vagrant youth Out West. 0-87286-005-1 $15.95

Luis Cernuda WRITTEN IN WATER While Cernuda’s verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life’s journey. 0-87286-431-6 $15.95

Sara Chin BELOW THE LINE A collection of short stories that speaks from the heart about the the many facets of the Chinese immigrant experience. 0-87286-331-X $9.95

Ward Churchill A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present Examines the definition of genocide and explores the indigenous holocaust and its denial. 0-87286-323-9 $19.95

Ward Churchill FANTASIES OF THE MASTER RACE Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians Literature and art crafted by the dominant culture are an insidious political force, disinforming people who might otherwise develop a clearer understanding of Native American struggles. 0-87286-348-4 $16.95

Ward Churchill KILL THE INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools The devastating results of a 100-year program to eradicate Native North American culture 0-87286-434-0 $15.95

Ward Churchill PERVERSIONS OF JUSTICE Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is a "nation of laws, not of men." In Perversions of Justice, Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a series of eleven carefully crafted essays how the U.S. has consistently employed a corrupt form of legalism as a means of establishing colonial control and empire. 0-87286-411-1 $19.95

Ward Churchill STRUGGLE FOR THE LAND Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization Ironically, the often remote and presumably useless fragments of geography set aside to keep Native Americans out of sight and mind has turned out to be some of the most resource-rich on the planet. Native Americans should thus be among the most affluent sectors of the population, but instead, they are the absolute poorest. The reason for this paradox is clear: the riches of North America’s indigenous nations continue to be channeled into the settler’s economy. 0-87286-414-6 $19.95

CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed. Fortieth-anniversary collection of poems from the famous series. Hardcover 0-87286-311-5 $18.95

Michelle Cliff FREE ENTERPRISE A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant With mesmerizing skill, Cliff weaves a multitude of voices into a gripping and poignant story that forever alters our perspective on familiar events from Harpers Ferry to the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. 0-87286-437-5 $14.95