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Sing a Battle Song

The Revolutinary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

Bernardine Dohrn

Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the...

Black Fez Manifesto, Etc

Hakim Bey

New poetic rants and prose poems from the author of TAZ and Millennium, among many other influential incendiary texts. This volume includes selected Communiques of the Cro-Magnon...

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...

40th Century Man

Selected Verse: 1996–1966

Andy Clausen

"Andy Clausen's character voice is heroic, a vox populi of the democratic unconscious. His comments on the enthusiastic Sixties, defensive Seventies, unjust Eighties and bullying Nineties present a...

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...

First Blues

Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971–1974

Allen Ginsberg

On this CD, recorded in the mid-1970s, Ginsberg accompanies himself on his small Benares hand-pumped harmonium (though on some of these performances, Ginsberg hums and grunts 'riffs' that were part...