Essential City Lights publications
Explore the best books from City Lights Publications. Discover essential reads, iconic titles, and must-have literature from this legendary publisher.
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Listen! Early Poems
by Vladimir Mayakovsky
“Nathaniel Mackey's poem is a brilliant renewal of and experiment with the language of our spiritual condition and a measure of what poetry gives in …
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The Shadow and Its Shadow
by Paul Hammond
The Shadow and Its Shadow is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and …
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Constellations of Miro, Breton
by Paul Hammond
In Constellations of Miro, Breton Paul Hammond unravels some of the mysteries of the call-and-response of these two Surrealists by reading the pictures against the …
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Anthology of Black Humor
by Andre Breton
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 of Surrealism, …
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State of Siege
by Juan Goytisolo
Set during the siege of Sarajevo these fictionalized reflections bear witness to the universal cry for freedom.
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San Francisco Beat
by David Meltzer
"In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, …
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Lunch Poems
by Frank O'Hara
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling …
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Roman Poems
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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 the second …
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Poems of Fernando Pessoa
by Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and …
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Delirium
by Jeremy Reed
Delirium, an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud's life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud …
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Sleeping, Sinning, Falling
by Mutsuo Takahashi
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 …
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The Unknown Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
"An anthology of fugitive writings by Edgar Allan Poe, with appreciations by Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, J.K. Huysmans.
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Erotism
by Georges Bataille
Reprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
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Resisting the Virtual Life
by James Brook
A variety of contributors gauge the impact of the new video, computer, and networked communications on the ways of life in a restructured world, exposing …
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Pomes All Sizes
by Jack Kerouac
A collection of poems by beat generation author Jack Kerouac, written between 1954 and 1965 about Mexico, Tangier, Berkeley, the Bowery, God, drugs, and other …
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Save Twilight
by Julio Cortazar
The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of …
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The Powers of the Word
by René Daumal
Since his death in 1944, Rene Daumal has come to be recognized as one of the original minds of the twentieth century French letters. Poet, …