City Lights Books

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.Illustrations: No

Publisher: City Lights BooksAuthor(s): D.S. MarriottNumber of pages: 100Collection: City Lights SpotlightPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 17...

With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience on the map of desire.Publisher: City Lights Bo...

Reducere. The MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Editio...

Reducere. Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the...

Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic acco...

Dino Campana wrote the unique, visionary masterwork of Italian literature Orphic Songs when he was in his twenties. The originality, rapturous lang...

Reducere. "Poso Wells is ironic, audacious, and fierce. But what is it, exactly? A satire? A scifi novel? A political detective yarn? Or the purest reality o...

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in th...

DescriptionDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of...

Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twen...

Reducere. With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground--people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life...

Reducere. This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts...

Reducere. The hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death were turned into tabloid fodder.In the early 1990s, eight people living in a small ...

Reducere. This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in b...

Reducere. Gnostics have always sought to "know" rather than to accept dogma and doctrine, often to their peril. This inquiry into Gnosticism examines the cha...

Reducere. In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's vi...

Reducere. -mesmerizing . . . When his international images are paired with his sparse, poetic words--sometimes thought-provoking one-liners such as 'You don'...

Reducere. Description"Bob Kaufman's life is written on mirrors in smoke."--Jack Kerouac"So much did he embody a French tradition of the poet as outsider, mad...

Reducere. One of the year's most anticipated books by The Millions, Colorlines and Remezcla, and recommended by the A.V. Club Carribean Fragoza's debut colle...

Spells, invocations, laments, and ritual rants. 'One of the fastest, wisest women to run with the wolves in some time.'- New York TimesPublisher: C...

Reducere. Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling pers...

Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year A State of the Union from the nation's ...

Reducere. An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his bi...

Reducere. Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-e...

The best-known work by the eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, Indians in Overalls is a fascinating account of his first linguistic field tri...

Reducere. Secrets of Voodoo traces the development in Haiti and the Americas of this complex religion from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of anci...

"I believe that Marcuse's ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago."--Angela Y. Davis, from the forewordHerbert Marcuse was one ...

Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today."What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to chall...

Reducere. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of...

Reducere. In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find "yage, " the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon....

"My heroes are Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Oguz Atay, and Yusuf Atilgan. I have become a novelist by following their footsteps . . . I love Yusuf Atilgan...

Reducere. The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by A...

National Book Award for Poetry, 1973Beginning with -long poem of these States, - The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded ...

Reducere. Many of the poems in this book are translated for the first time into English." Accompanying the poems are rare drawings and lithographs by Mayakov...

Reducere. "Old Angel Midnight is one of the great delights of the boundless improvisational world. Jack Kerouac's ear is peerless, manifesting structures oth...

Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhel...

Reducere. Description"The city presses palms flat against the thought of /Afternoon winds and has a brief fantasy of creeks"--Kim Shuck, "The 43"Deer Trails ...

Reducere. Newsweek, Lit Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution pick Race Man by Julian Bond as one of their Most-Anticipated Bo...

The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death...

Reducere. Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a confrontation, an invitation to ...

Reducere. This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes ``Story of a Little Girl, `` about the Catholic priest who se...

Reducere. Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed The New York Times directs readers to Reta...

Planet News collecting seven years' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, ...

"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems.Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side...

Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.It was Lawrence Ferlin...

Reducere. What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms o...

"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she doe...

DescriptionA breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by i...

Publisher: City Lights BooksAuthor(s): Mosab Abu TohaIllustration(s): 15 color photosNumber of pages: 100Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 17...

Reducere. In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders.To...

Reducere. A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change."An iconoclast of the best...

Reducere. Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it.With F...

Reducere. The New York Times Bestseller "This is The Most Inspiring Children's Book We've Ever Seen."--Refinery29.com"The very first kids' book released by t...

Reducere. ``Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous.``--The Village VoiceIn Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winn...

Reducere. In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: How does it feel to be a problem? In The Heart of ...

Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. This new ...

``Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal ... His writings are a w...

Reducere. An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism." . . . some big titles...

At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and anim...

Reducere. DescriptionHow a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, and how it laid the g...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Patrick NeateNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...

DescriptionThe role of news media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power. But does it do any o...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...