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Theatre of the Oppressed

Augusto Boal

"One of the most revered figures in world theatre ... the liberation theologian of theatre."—The Guardian"Should be read by everyone in the world of theatre who has any pretensions...

Poetry As Insurgent Art

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

From the groundbreaking (and betselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of Americus, Book I in 2003, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has, in more than thirty books,...

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...

From Bughouse Square To The Beat Generation

Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage - Founder & Janitor Of The College Of Complexes

Slim Brundage

A unique combination of tavern, university and nonstop wild party, the College in its heyday (1951-1961) was for many years Chicago's outstanding outsider outpost. The writings collected here by...

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...

(An Open Entrance To The Shut Palace Of) Wrong Numbers

Franklin Rosemont

Like everyone else, you dial and receive Wrong Numbers. But what do you make of them? And what do they make of you? What do these calls, universally regarded as irritating, tell us about the...

Hobohemia

Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders In 1920s/30s Chicago

Frank O. Beck

From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an...

I Spit On Your Graves

Boris Vian

Published in Paris in 1946 as a hardboiled thriller loaded with sex and blood, allegedly censored in the US and 'translated' ito French - I Spit On Your Graves was both a pure mystification, and...