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Arsenal

Surrealist Subversion

Franklin Rosemont

Technically, this is the fourth issue of Arsenal, the occasional surrealist 'magazine'. Actually, its a bloody huge, 225 oversize page compendium (read feast) of surrealist and surrealist-tinged...

I Am Secretly An Important Man

Steven Jesse Bernstein

A (posthumous) collection of prose from the nearly legendary writer, junkie, wordsmith, sometime Sub-Pop recording artist,a and inspiration to Kurt Cobain and countless others. "The work is deeply...

The New Fuck You

Adventures In Lesbian Reading

Eileen Myles

Currently in its 4th printing, this LAMBDA-award winning anthology crosses all boundaries of taste and style, to bring together stories by writers as diverse as Sapphire, Joan Larkin, Linda...

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A greatest hits celebrating 40 years of the seminal anthology. Ginsberg, Marie Ponsot, Pasolini, Corso, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, Kerouac, Prevert, di Prima, Anne Waldman, Ernesto Cardenal,...

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...

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...

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....

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...