The Ghetto and Other Poems

Lola Ridge

The Ghetto and Other Poems, Lola Ridge's major collection of poems, was first published in New York by B.W. Huebsch in 1918. This study of the Lower East Side immigrant subcultures by an...

Scrapmetal

Ammiel Alcalay

Between a Cadillac and a Valiant sitting idly in the snow, Scrapmetal takes a provisional journey through the experience of work and the untangling of vampiric forces that sever life from...

Polemics

Anselm Hollo

Poetry and polemics have typically gone in opposite directions -- the fine flame of the sonnet, blue cone in orange, versus the raging blazes of oratory. But opposites are alike in every way but...

Adulterers Anonymous

Lydia Lunch

A spoken word/poetry collaboration by Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka, first published in 1982, when both were at the height of their creative powers. Solitary and intertwining, the voices of Lydia...

Howl on Trial

The Battle for Free Expression

Bill Morgan

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly 1,000,000 copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending the landmark poem...

Memory for Forgetfulness

August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish

Using as setting the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut, Darwish re-creates in this sequence of vivid prose poems the sights and sounds of a city under siege. With fighter...

Rusty String Quartet

Poems by Raegan Butcher

Raegan Butcher

Second collection of work from Crimethinc's poet laureate. 332 (largely short) poems which run the gamut of incarceration, alienation, hope, despair, and all the barbs that society throws at us....

Final Girl

Daphne Gottlieb

More than performance poetry, spoken word, and/or slam, Daphne Gottlieb lives, and breathes, and expresses.....Titled for the last girl left alive in the classic horror movie, Final Girl...

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Communication Politics In Dubious Times

Robert McChesney

In this stellar myth-breaking book, McChesney argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and...