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Nawal El Saadawi MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN DOCTOR A young Egyptian female medical student overcomes social hypocrisy and social injustice to become a caring and successful physician. 0-87286-223-2 $11.95

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno THE CONTINUAL PILGRIMAGE American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 A biographical/historical portrait of of the postwar successors to the Lost Generation. 0-87286-334-4 $18.95

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, trans. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JAGUAR From the Books of Chilam Balam "Maya surrealism, dark with jungle shadows and bright with macaw plumage...." – Chicago Tribune 0-87286-210-0 $9.95

Andrew Schelling THE CANE GROVES OF NARMADA RIVER Erotic Poems from Old India "The Cane Groves is a brilliant selection of refined, provocative, shivery-lovely poems. . . . What a gem of book! It's the best gathering of Indian short poems yet." – Gary Snyder 0-87286-346-8 $9.95

Amy Scholder, ed. CRITICAL CONDITION Women on the Edge of Violence Domestic violence and women who kill: essays, performance monologues, art by Sapphire, Dorothy Allison, Wanda Coleman, Theory Girls, Carrie Mae Weems. 0-87286-285-2 $10.95

Jean-Jacques Schuhl INGRID CAVEN Translated by Michael Pye This novel is based on the life of the extraordinary German cabaret singer and film actress who was once director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s star and wife, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, and a protégé of Pierre Bergé. Consisting of memories, real and invented people and events, Ingrid Caven reveals the cold heart of the European counterculture of the 1970s, an era of celebrity glitz, cocaine-fueled excesses, gay bathhouses, and young idealists-turned-terrorists. ISBN 0-87286-427-8 $13.95

Victor Serge RESISTANCE Translated by James Brook Introduction by Richard Greeman Poems celebrating the people of the steppe, among whom this revolutionary humanist lived when he was exiled by Stalin. 0-87286-225-9 $5.95

Cindy Sheehan DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH Introduction by Howard Zinn America’s most famous antiwar Mom speaks out for peace, social justice, and an end to the Iraq War. 0-87286-454-5 $9.95

Oz Shelach PICNIC GROUNDS Part reportage, part parable, part excavation of history, this jigsaw puzzle of compelling tales constitutes an exile’s nostalgic tour into Israel’s culture of denial. Captivating in its beguiling, seeming simplicity, Picnic Grounds is a novel built from the layers of overlapping lives and stories, much like the villages and cities of Israel are constructed from a culture superimposed over the palimpsest of history. 0-87286-419-7 $11.95 $8.37

Sam Shepard FOOL FOR LOVE & THE SAD LAMENT OF PECOS BILL In these plays: "Fresh news of love, here and now, in all its potency, deviousness, and foolishness, and of many other matters as well." –The New Yorker 0-87286-150-3 $10.95

Sam Shepard MOTEL CHRONICLES An autobiography "full of verbal delights as well as insights into his entire canon... he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West." – New York Times 0-87286-143-0 $11.95

Eleni Sikelianos THE BOOK OF JON A Memoir A vivid and poignant evocation of a daughter’s relationship with her enigmatic, inspiring, and deeply troubled father 0-87286-436-7 $11.95

Gary Snyder PASSAGE THROUGH INDIA A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title Snyder's account of a half-year spent in India with co-traveler Joanne Kyger, reflecting on Hindu and Buddhist culture, nature, and travel. 0-912516-80-1 $8.95

David Solnit, ed. GLOBALIZE LIBERATION How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World Globalize Liberation weaves together the experiences and insights of community organizers, direct action movements, and global justice struggles from North America, Europe, and Latin America. Thirty-three essays provide food for thought, examples of effective action, and practical tools for everyone to use. 0-87286-420-0 $17.95

Rebecca Solnit SECRET EXHIBITION Six California Artists of the Cold War Era Wallace Berman, Bruce Connor, Jess, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hendrick, and George Herms: artists that broke new ground with assemblage and mixed-media work during the Cold War period. With over 200 illustrations and 8 color pages. 0-87286-254-2 $17.95

Elizabeth Stromme JOE’S WORD An Echo Park Novel City Lights Noir #5 This noir-style novel vividly brings to life an embattled community of mostly have-nots who attempt to thrive amid political battles over air rights and pollution trading, LAPD abuse, and assorted run-of-the-mill inner city murders. 0-87286-425-1 $11.95

Mark Swartz INSTANT KARMA Part Unabomber, part van Gogh, David Felsenstein yearns to create an unforgettable masterpiece. He browses the stacks of the Chicago Public Library in search of connections between obscure volumes, scrupulously footnoting his research into anarchy, magnetotherapy, Buddhism, plastic surgery, and much more. We read his journal, tracing his course through books and philosophies as he prepares his magnum opus — blowing up the library that he loves. 0-87286-408-1 $11.95

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Antonio Tabucchi DREAMS OF DREAMS andTHE LAST THREE DAYS OF FERNANDO PESSOA Translated from the Italian by Nancy J. Peters A City Lights/Italian Voices Book In Dreams of Dreams Tabucchi imagines the dreams of twenty artists he has loved and admired; in The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa, he gives a metaphysical recounting of the end of the poet Fernando Pessoa in a moving tribute to the man who invented the Portuguese avant-garde and reinvented the myth of Lisbon 0-87286-368-9 $10.95

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David L. Ulin ANOTHER CITY: WRITING FROM LOS ANGELES Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles 0-87286-391-3 $16.95

Ellen Ullman CLOSE TO THE MACHINE Technophilia and Its Discontents An autobiographical novel of a software engineer living on the cusp of the technological wave. Paperback 0-87286-332-8 $12.95

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Nanos Valaoritis MY AFTERLIFE GUARANTEED Witty meditations that open onto unexpected vistas of history, myth, language, and writing. 0-87286-248-8 $6.95

Andre VandenBroeck BREAKING THROUGH A Narrative of the Great Work An Italian cinematographer travels to Spain and investigates the origins of human language and consciousness. 0-87286-319-0 $15.95

Janine Pommy Vega TRACKING THE SERPENT Journeys into Four Continents The true-life adventures of a woman traveling four continents in search of knowledge and sites where female power was worshipped. 0-87286-327-1 $12.95

George Veltri NICE BOY An intoxicating comic novel about nice kids from Queens in the savage underbelly of New York City. 0-87286-302-6 $9.95

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Anne Waldman FAST SPEAKING WOMAN Chants and Essays Pocket Poets Series No. 33 Spells, invocations, laments, and ritual rants. "...one of the fastest, wisest women to run with the wolves in some time."– New York Times 0-87286-316-6 $10.95

Maureen Webb ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World In light of the recently revealed Automated Targeting System, used by Department of Homeland Security to “risk score” travelers based on a secret terrorism index, this book is a timely and provocative read about what governments should and should not be doing to protect us from further terrorist attacks. 0-87286-476-6 $16.95

Lew Welch HOW I READ GERTRUDE STEIN The Letters of Lew Welch Volume 1 (1949-1960) A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title "Rarely indeed does one have a chance to witness such attention so finely attuned. Lew Welch's early take on his great mentor's primary works is testament to his own exceptional authority, as reader and writer alike. His insights are fundamental to our recognition of Stein as the bedrock genius she always was for him. He says it all here with such clarity." –Robert Creeley 0-912516-23-2 $10.95

Lew Welch HOW I WORK AS A POET & Other Essays A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title A collection of essays, speeches, and writings by one of the masters of the San Francisco Renaissance, Lew Welch. 0-912516-06-2 $9.95

Lew Welch I REMAIN The Letters of Lew Welch Volume 1 (1949-1960) A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title Lew Welch narrates the story of his life in these letters written to his mother and his friends and mentors, from his Reed College days, through the years of exile in New York and Chicago, to his return to his native California in 1957 and his active participation thereafter in the San Francisco scene. 0-912516-08-9 $12.95

Lew Welch I REMAIN The Letters of Lew Welch Volume 2 (1960-1971) A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title Lew Welch continues the narration of his life in these letters, written to his mother as well ashis friends and mentors during his times in San Francisco, Reno, the Trinity Alps country, and Marin County, until his disappearance in the Sierra Nevada foothills in 1971. 0-912516-42-9 $12.95

Lew Welch RING OF BONE Collected Poems 1950-1971 A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title "The shape of Ring of Bone is circular, or back and forth. Naturally such a form never ends. The principal characters are The Mountain, The City, and The Man who attempts to understand and live with them." – Lew Welch, from the Preface 0-912516-03-8 $12.95

Lew Welch SELECTED POEMS A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title "Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings...His work stands in the context of San Francisco poetry renaissance: the post-World War II libertarian energy of striving to further develop the possibilities of open-form poetry." – Gary Snyder, from the Preface 0-912516-20-8 $9.95

John Wilson INK ON PAPER As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Musashi, Sengai, Shih K’o, Korin, Ku K’ai-chih, Kusumi Morikage, Taiga, and Kung K’ai. The succinct loveliness of the poems seems often as acute as the verses of Li Po and Tu Fu. Read a recent interview with John Wilson 0-87286-393-x $12.00

Peter Lamborn Wilson PLOUGHING THE CLOUDS The Search for Irish Soma A comparative study of mythology and folklore, exploring ancient Irish legends and Vedic scriptures. 0-87286-326-3 $14.95

Peter Lamborn Wilson SACRED DRIFT Essays on the Margins of Islam ". . . insurrectionary, elegant, dangerous, suffused with light, a search for poetic facts, a donation both from and to the tradition of spiritual anarchy." --Hakim Bey 0-87286-275-5 $15.95

Terry Wolverton INSURGENT MUSE Life and Art at the Woman’s Building In Insurgent Muse, author Terry Wolverton tells of her thirteen-year involvement in the Woman’s Building. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project, and, eventually, executive director. Her journey—emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism—entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash. 0-87286-403-0 $17.95 Read a recent interview with author Terry Wolverton

John Wynne THE OTHER WORLD Stories as disturbing as they are unforgettable. "A book to handle with asbestos gloves, but well worth the walk through fire." – Paul Monette 0-87286-290-9 $9.95

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Daisy Zamora RIVERBED OF MEMORY Translated by Barbara Paschke Pocket Poets Series No. 49 Poems about the devastation of war and the courage and resilience of the Nicaraguan people. Bilingual text. 0-87286-273-9 $9.95

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress By Howard Zinn ISBN 0-87286-475-8 Paperback, 308 pp $16.95 | Howard Zinn in the news http://howardzinn.org

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