The Best From City Lights
Discover the best books from City Lights! Explore our curated list of must-read titles from this iconic bookstore, featuring classic and contemporary literature.
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Howl, and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
This collection of poems by Ginsberg created a sensation when it was first published in 1956, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing …
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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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Paroles
by Jacques Prevert
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German …
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Motel Chronicles
by Sam Shepard
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 …
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Reclaiming San Francisco
by James Brook
Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story …
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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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Erotism
by Georges Bataille
Reprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
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Fantasies of the Master Race
by Ward Churchill
Chosen an "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. …
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Artaud Anthology
by Antonin Artaud
"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, …