Forthcoming Books Recently Released Books Complete Catalog How to Order Books Manuscript Guidelines Rights & Permissions Desk & Review Copies Contact Us
				All City Lights Books are available in the City Lights Bookstore (Map & Directions ) and at other fine bookstores around the country. You can also order these books directly from our web site, simply click on the "add to cart" button next to the book of your choice. All orders will be sent by U.S. 4th Class Mail. For expedited shipping, or international orders, please see our Ordering Information . By author: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

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

B

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

C

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

Jonathan Cohen APART FROM FREUD Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis Diverging from vituperative debates between the "Freud bashers" and the orthodox Freudians, this critique of psychoanalysis examines Freud's background assumptions in biology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and moral and social philosophy in order to develop an alternative practice that challenges authoritarian traditions and fosters individual freedom and responsible action in the world. 0-87286-378-6 $18.95

Edward Conze, Translator THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM In Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary After the Torah, the Koran and the Gospels, the Indian literature of "The Perfection of Wisdom" has had the greatest impact on the religious consciousness of mankind. Its composition extended for over seven hundred years, and here we offer the reader the first two works which were composed in South India between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100. 0-87704-049-4 $19.95

Adam Cornford ANIMATIONS Pocket Poets Series No. 45 A man's body full of selves, imagining the real. 0-87286-208-9 $5.95 now $2.98!

Gregory Corso GASOLINE Pocket Poets Series No. 8 His first and greatest books here in one volume: The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Gasoline. 0-87286-088-4 $8.95

Julio Cortázar SAVE TWILIGHT Selected Poems Pocket Poets Series No. 53 Translated by Stephen Kessler Cortázar's poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentine sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life. 0-87286-333-6 $12.95

Margaret Cruikshank, Editor THE LESBIAN PATH, 2nd Edition For this new edition of her landmark collection of lesbian lives, Margaret Cruikshank has added an interview with May Sarton and texts by Beth Brant, Elsa Gidlow, Judy Grahn and Jane Rule. 0-91251-696-8 $10.95

Gil Cuadros CITY OF GOD Unsparing narratives about growing up in L.A. Chicano neighborhoods, coming out in Hollywood bars, and living with AIDS. Stories "as dire as they are beautiful." --Bernard Cooper 0-87286-295-X $13.95

D

Kamau Daáood THE LANGUAGE OF SAXOPHONES Selected Poems City Lights Pocket Poets Series #57 Selections from a lifetime of poetry by one of America’s premier “word-musicians,” this book is long overdue! 0-87286-441-3 $10.95

René Daumal THE POWERS OF THE WORD Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943 Translated by Mark Polizzoti Enticements to revolt, literary and philosophical essays, spiritual meditations. 0-87286-259-3 $12.95 Temporarily out of stock

Guy Davenport, Translator HERAKLEITOS & DIOGENES All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources. 0-91251-636-4 $9.95

Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden SECRET ORAL TEACHINGS IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST SECTS "...this is the most direct, no-nonsense, and down-to-earth explanation of Mahayana Buddhism that has been written. Specifically, it is a wonderfully lucid account of the Middle Way method of enlightenment worked out by the great Indian sage Nagarjuna." — Alan Watts 0-87286-012-4 $10.95

Jaime de Angulo INDIANS IN OVERALLS An account of living with the Achumawi tribe of Northeastern California. 0-87286-312-3 $9.95

Pedro de Jesús FRIGID TALES Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster This beautiful and original collection of stories set in Cuba plays opportunely with realism and fiction to create a world divided into six tales that form an interlocked unity–forming a passionate novel that gives us a tour de force of alienation and erotic obsession by taking us deep into a world where sex is casual, but real love elusive. 0-87286-399-9 $11.95

Gilles Deleuze SPINOZA, PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Translated by Robert Hurley Elegant new reading of the Ethics, an incitement to resist the technocentric world. 0-87286-218-6 $12.95

Leslie Dick KICKING Witty novel about today's young artists and writers in London and New York. 0-87286-282-8 $10.95

Leslie Dick WITHOUT FALLING "Fierce, surprising, like real life...an ungenteel scalpel of a novel." –Angela Carter 0-87286-224-0 $6.95

Diane Di Prima PIECES OF A SONG Selected Poems Monumental collection by this Beat poet, political activist, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner. 0-87286-237-2 $14.95

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) NOTES ON THOUGHT AND VISION Aphoristic meditation on the creative process by this stellar Imagist poet. 0-87286-141-4 $9.95

Rikki Ducornet ENTERING FIRE The bizarre exploits of two brothers: one evil, the other good, in a novel of profound ideas. "A drastically beautiful comic writer . . . as if Proust had gone into partnership with Lenny Bruce." – City Limits 0-87286-355-7 $10.95

Rikki Ducornet THE MONSTROUS AND THE MARVELOUS In these essays, Ducornet, champion of serendipity and the imagination, dissects strange attractors, enchanted alphabets, theaters of desire, and politics as a way of dreaming. 0-87286-354-9 $12.95

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz OUTLAW WOMAN A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 Dunbar-Ortiz worked in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade and formed associations with other revolutionaries across the spectrum of radical and underground politics, including the SDS, the Weather Underground, the Revolutionary Union, and the African National Congress. But unlike the majority of those in the New Left, Dunbar-Ortiz grew up poor, female, and part-Indian in rural Oklahoma, and she often found herself at odds not only with the ruling class but also with the Left and with the women’s movement. 0-87286-390-5 $17.95 | See Roxanne's upcoming readings and events

E

Isabelle Eberhardt THE OBLIVION SEEKERS Translated by Paul Bowles Isabelle Eberhardt dreamed of escaping the gloom of Europe, and when she was nineteeen she realized her desire in North Africa – Dar el Islam. In 1904, when she died in a flash flood in the Sahara, she was only twenty-seven years old, and had led a legendary, tempestuous life that encompassed both subversive political anarchism and the mysticism of Islam. 0-87286-082-5 $10.95

Isabelle Eberhardt DEPARTURES Translated by Karim Hamdy & Laura Rice This selection of short stories, reportage, and travel journals, which glow with sensuous detail, superbly evokes the life of the desert towns and nomadic peoples of the Saharan region of Morocco and Algeria. 0-87286-288-7 $12.95

Janice Eidus THE CELIBACY CLUB Nineteen short stories by the two-time winner of the prestigious O. Henry Prize. By turns erotic, funny, bawdy, and poignant, they explore contemporary obsessions with sex, Prozac, vampires, James Dean, and rock icons Axl Rose and Elvis--all with dazzling range. 0-87286-322-0 $9.95

Janice Eidus URBAN BLISS A "whimsical, clean, and fast-paced read, both sexy and savvy, about punctured promises and deception. . . . Eidus's seriously funny world [is] anything but safe." -- The Review of Contemporary Fiction 0-87286-339-5 $9.95

Janice Eidus VITO LOVES GERALDINE Short stories that cast a sharp eye on contemporary myths of romance, rebellion, and self-discovery. "Inventive and darkly amusing." -- New York Times Book Review 0-87286-247-X $11.95

F

Ernest Fenollosa THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR POETRY edited by Ezra Pound An important extension of imagist technique in poetry was gained by Pound's perception of the essentially poetic nature of the Chinese character as it is still written. 0-87286-014-0 $9.95

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

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed. ENDS AND BEGINNINGS City Lights Review No. 6 A glimpse at the fin de siecle: Fo, Pasolini, Pound, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Codrescu, Blanco, Schelling, D.H. Lawrence, Waldman, Vlasenko, Reed. 0-87286-292-5 $10.00 Temporarily out of stock

Lawrence Ferlinghetti LIFE STUDIES, LIFE STORIES: Drawings Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some "disastered by life," some with incisive or caustic words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghetti’s graphic work and play, ranging from his early drawings made in Paris ateliers, to yesterday’s sessions sketching models in his San Francisco studio. 0-8726-421-9 $19.95

Lawrence Ferlinghetti PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD Pocket Poets Series No. 1 Second, expanded edition, with eighteen new poems. 0-87286-303-4 $7.95

Lawrence Ferlinghetti SAN FRANCISCO POEMS San Francisco Poet Laureate Series #1 San Francisco's first Poet Laureate (1999-2000) has collected here all of his poems set in the city he has lived in for over a half a century. 1-931404-01-1 $9.95

Karen Finley SHOCK TREATMENT "Provocative performances lambasting misogyny, homophobia, and the coercion of bodies and minds. "It should not go unread."– Publishers Weekly 0-87286-252-6 $11.95

Sesshu Foster ATOMIK AZTEX A fantastical gonzo Aztlán mythology, where modern Aztecs and immigrant ghosts uncover blood sacrifice in Los Angeles. 0-87286-440-5 $15.95

Cola Franzen, tr. POEMS OF ARAB ANDALUSIA From the high Moorish civilization in Spain, ideas "more subtle than the West Wind, and language more beautiful than a fair Face." --Codex Ibn Said 0-87286-242-9 $12.95 Temporarily out of stock

Gloria Frym DISTANCE NO OBJECT by Gloria Frym The private lives of the once-radical college town of Berkeley are swept along by the currents of history, just as they were thirty years ago. 0-87286-358-1 $10.95

G

Paul Garon BLUES AND THE POETIC SPIRIT "A new and important approach to the analysis of the blues as psychpoetic phenomenon..." – Samuel Floyd 0-87286-315-8 $14.95

Jaime Gil de Biedma LONGING Selected Poems Translated by James Nolan The most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war--ironic and urbane, satiric and sensually Mediterranean. Bilingual text. 0-87286-277-1 $9.95

Allen Ginsberg COMPOSED ON THE TONGUE A Book of Literary Conversations 1967-1977 A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title Spanning a decade of Ginsberg's life in letters, essays, and lectures, this book includes journal entries on his encounters with Ezra Pound, transcribed conversations with other poets and artists, and notes from Ginsberg's Spiritual Poetics course entitled "First Thought, Best Thought." 0-912516-29-1 $9.95 Temporarily out of stock

Allen Ginsberg THE FALL OF AMERICA Poems of These States 1965-1971 Pocket Poets Series No. 30 Vietnam-era poems of rage and compassion. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. 0-87286-063-9 $10.95

Allen Ginsberg HOWL AND OTHER POEMS Pocket Poets Series No. 4 World literature classic--the one, the only, the original HOWL! Over a million copies in print around the world. The poem that made history in 1956, setting a First Amendment freedom of speech precedent. 0-87286-017-5 $6.95

Allen Ginsberg HOWL AND OTHER POEMS Pocket Poets Series No. 4 Special 40th anniversary hardcover edition. 0-87286-310-7 $12.95

Allen Ginsberg KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 1958-1960 Pocket Poets Series No. 14 "Kaddish," "To Aunt Rose," "At Apollinaire's Grave," and more. 0-87286-019-1 $8.95

Allen Ginsberg MIND BREATHS 1972-1977 Pocket Poets Series No. 35 "On Neruda's Death," "Who Runs America?" "Jaweh and Allah Battle," and more. 0-87286-092-2 $8.95

Allen Ginsberg PLANET NEWS 1961-1967 Pocket Poets Series No. 23 "Kraj Majales," "Who Be Kind to?" "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express," and more. 0-87286-020-5 $8.95

Allen Ginsberg PLUTONIAN ODE 1977-1980 Pocket Poets Series No. 40 Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. "Father Guru," "Don't Grow Old," "Nagasaki Days," "Bird Brain," and more. 0-87286-125-2 $8.95

Allen Ginsberg REALITY SANDWICHES 1953-1960 Pocket Poets Series No.18 "Over Kansas," "American Change," "Siesta in Xbalba," "The Green Automobile," and more. 0-87286-021-3 $7.95

Allen Ginsberg TRAVELS WITH GINSBERG A Postcard Book: Allen Ginsberg Photographs 1944- 1995 Edited by Bill Morgan Here in the form of twenty detachable postcards are photographs taken over the years on the poet's many travels and trips abroad. Pictures include: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso in Mexico; Burroughs and Bowles in Tangier; Snyder in Japan; and Ginsberg in India and Prague. 0-87286-397-2 $9.95

Thomas Glave WHOSE SONG? AND OTHER STORIES "A fiercely imagined debut--intensely lyric, driven by the desire in the face of everything for truth, justice, beauty." --Carole Maso 0-87286-375-1 $12.95

Robert Glück ELEMENTS OF A COFFEE SERVICE In these narratives, Robert Glück takes essay, lyric, fable, gossip, and dismantles these traditional categories. With their parts he constructs stories where emotions find release and events yield their meanings. 0-87704-058-3 $9.95

Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS From Columbus to the Border Patrol Inspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this artists book opens out in accordion folds expanding to a length of over 21 feet. Clothbound (accordion fold with spine; full color) 0-87286-367-0 $24.95

Guillermo Gómez-Peña THE NEW WORLD BORDER Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century Performance texts, poems, and essays explore America's irrational fears of otherness and hybridization. 0-87286-313-1 $16.95

Juan Goytisolo A COCK-EYED COMEDY In A Cock-Eyed Comedy Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain’s history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei—the conservative right wing Catholic organization—religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity Goytisolo delightfully savages. 0-87286-450-2 $13.95

Juan Goytisolo THE MARX FAMILY SAGA Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush A resurrected Karl Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts and hamburger freedom are all the rage, and returns to a Hampstead housewarming reception and ball filmed by the cameras for a Merchant-Ivorish Red Baroness. . . . "The most important living novelist from Spain." – Guardian 0-87286-349-2 $10.95

Juan Goytisolo LANDSCAPES OF WAR: FROM SARAJEVO TO CHECHNYA Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush Introduction by Tariq Ali These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide rich historical analysis and moving first-person reportage of life in four explosive war zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. 0-87286-373-5 $16.95

Juan Goytisolo STATE OF SIEGE Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane A traveller looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disapeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures. ISBN: 0-87286-406-5 $13.95

Lisa Gray-Garcia (a.k.a. Tiny) CRIMINAL OF POVERTY: GROWING UP HOMELESS IN AMERICA Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother’s primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness. As Dee, a single mother, struggles with the demons of her own childhood of neglect and abuse, Lisa has to quickly assume the roles of an adult in an attempt to keep some stability in their lives. “Dee and Tiny” ultimately become underground celebrities in San Francisco, squatting in storefronts and performing the “art of homelessness.” Their story, filled with black humor and incisive analysis, illuminates the roots of poverty, the criminalization of poor families and their struggle for survival. ISBN: 1-931404-07-0 $15.95

Jorge Guillén HORSES IN THE AIR AND OTHER POEMS Translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge Guillén's luminous poetry is  marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision. 0-87286-352-2 $15.95

H

Jessica Hagedorn DANGER AND BEAUTY In Danger and Beauty Hagedorn muses about love and sex; mysticism and drugs; and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart—and heartbreaks—of the immigrant experience. 0-87286-387-6 $16.95

Paul Hammond CONSTELLATIONS OF MIRÓ, BRETON Joan Miró's gouaches as read through André Breton's poems as read through the biographies of these two Surrealists in exile during the Second World War--a mad history that haunts us still. 0-87286-372-7 $18.95

Paul Hammond, ed. and trans. THE SHADOW AND ITS SHADOW Surrealist Writings on the Cinema The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical re-visions of the seventh art in this anthology document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. Essayists include Breton, Aragon, Desnos, Dalí, Buñuel, and Man Ray, & more. 0-87286-376-X $17.95

Carla Harryman THERE NEVER WAS A ROSE WITHOUT A THORN “Carla Harryman is a great wide-awake visionary-reading her is like playing Olympic ping pong in eight dimensions. In her work we encounter the Libido’s fierce games: the willful sense and non-sense, the endless reversibility. Rampant story and rhetoric (out culture’s self-descriptions) are raised up, then promptly guillotined for crimes against honesty. Through this florescence of creation and destruction, Harryman wages one of contemporary writing’s most radical critiques.” – Robert Glück 0-87286-3018 $10.95

Juan Felipe Herrera and Artemio Rodríguez LOTERÍA CARDS AND FORTUNE POEMS A Book of Lives Introduction by Rupert García A unique cross-border collaboration, a seamless union of Mexican and Mexican American sensibilities. Rodriguez's exquisite linocuts are paired with Herrera's hallucinatory poetry to give a modern interpretation of the popular game of lotería. 0-87286-359-X $15.95

Perry Higman, ed. and trans. LOVE POEMS FROM SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA Sixty-five poems, medieval to modern. "A sensual and charming collection." -- Library Journal Bilingual text. 0-87286-183-X $14.95

Francisco Hinojosa HECTIC ETHICS Translated from the Spanish by Kurt Hollander Eight masterly stories convey a mercilessly sardonic view of family and society, and his ingenious array of anti-heroes embodies a conspicuous disdain for conventions. Hinojosa is the recipient of Mexico's National Prize for the Short Story. 0-87286-347-6 $9.95

Jack Hirschman FRONT LINES Pocket Poets Series #55 In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic output, spanning many years and mutations. When he reads aloud, the words take fire, and on the page they crackle and spark. 0-87286-400-6 $15.95

submission guidelines/ desk, review, & examination copies

---

City Lights Books
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-362-8193
staff@citylights.com
www.citylights.com

© 2001-2006 by City Lights Books