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Juvenal Acosta, ed.
LIGHT FROM A NEARBY WINDOW
Contemporary Mexican Poetry
Poetry by Alberto Blanco, Carmen Boullosa, Ricardo Castillo, Lucha Corpi, David Huerta, Elva Macias, Silvia Tomasa Rivera, and more; named a Choice "Outstanding Academic book" for 1995.
Bilingual text.
0-87286-281-X
$12.95
Rafael Alberti
CONCERNING THE ANGELS
Translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Great, dark Spanish masterpiece, on a par with Neruda's Residencia en la Tierra and García Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York.
Bilingual text.
0-87286-297-6
$12.95
Ammiel Alcalay, ed.
KEYS TO THE GARDEN
New Israeli Writing
Explosive fiction, interviews, and poetry by the mizrahim (Oriental Jews) in Israel today.
0-87286-308-5
$21.95
Roberta Allen
AMAZON DREAM
The real story of one woman's journey into the heart of the Peruvian Amazon.
0-87286-270-4
$10.95
Jaime de Angulo
INDIANS IN OVERALLS
An account of living with the Achumawi tribe of Northeastern California.
0-87286-312-3
$8.95
Antonin Artaud
ARTAUD ANTHOLOGY
Translated by Jack Hirschman
Essays on literature, theater, travel, prophetic and visionary texts.
0-87286-000-0
$14.95
Molly Barker
SECRET LANGUAGE
176 pen-and-ink drawings form a cycle of six stories that explore the indestructible human spirit.
0-87286-328-X
hardcover
$12.95
Georges Bataille
EROTISM
Death and Sensuality
Translated by Mary Dalwood
Witches' sabbaths, orgies, mysticism, cruelty, war, sacrifice, transgression and ecstasy.
0-87286-190-2
$16.95
Georges Bataille
THE IMPOSSIBLE
Translated by Robert Hurley
A very strange, perhaps impossible, journey beyond sex and philosophy; yet a text crucial to the exposition of his most important thought.
0-87286-262-3
$12.95
Georges Bataille
STORY OF THE EYE
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Originally published under a pseudonym, this first novel of G.B. is a legendary shocker.
0-87286-209-7
$9.95
Georges Bataille
THE TEARS OF EROS
Translated by Peter Connor
On the track of violence and the erotic through art theory, philosophy, anthropology, and the history of consciousness. With 200 illustrations from cave art to the present.
0-87286-222-4
$18.95
Charles Baudelaire
TWENTY PROSE POEMS
Translated by Michael Hamburger
Epigrammatic portrait of a sensuous and decadent Parisian society.
Bilingual text.
0-87286-216-X
$8.95
Alberto Blanco
DAWN OF THE SENSES
Edited by Juvenal Acosta
Pocket Poets Series No. 52
Dynamic and influential force in the new poetry of Mexico.
0-87286-309-3
$12.95
Stefano Bortolussi
Head Above Water
Translated by Anne Milano Appel
A City Lights Italian Voices Title
Read a recent interview with Stefano Bortolussi
Plagued by guilt over the drowning of his younger brother, Italian writer Cardo Mariano is strangely terrified by life. When he is finally forced to confront his past and his evasions, he learns to face his fear and finds that there are second chances after all.
0-87286-426-x
$11.95
Paul Bowles
A HUNDRED CAMELS IN THE COURTYARD
Diverting stories of life in a land where cannabis customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world.
0-87286-002-7
$8.95
Serge Bramly
MACUMBA
The Teachings of Maria-José, Mother of the Gods
Philosophy and practice of rich Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition, explained by Maria-José, a Mother of the Gods. Many photographs of complex ceremonial life.
0-87286-286-0
$14.95
André Breton
ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK HUMOR
Translated by Mark Polizzotti
Acerbic, iconoclastic, and outrageous writing by forty-five specialists in l'humour noir --from Swift to Duchamp--with commentary by Breton.
0-87286-321-2
$18.95
James Brook and Iain Boal, eds.
RESISTING THE VIRTUAL LIFE
The Culture and Politics of Information
A radical assessment of the impact of information technologies on everyday life. "Ice-cold insights abound." -- New York Times
0-87286-299-2
$15.95
Rebecca Brown
ANNIE OAKLEY'S GIRL
In the contemporary Gothic world, the terrible girls in these interlinking stories are on the prowl, relentless in love, and ruthless in betrayal. "Simply one of the best lesbian writers around... Annie Oakley's Girl is stunning." Dorothy Allison
0-87286-279-8
$9.95
Rebecca Brown
The End of Youth
The End of Youth is a collection of thirteen linked stories, essays and rants about carrying on after youths hope is gone.
0-87286-418-9
$11.95
Rebecca Brown
THE TERRIBLE GIRLS
In the contemporary Gothic world, the terrible girls in these interlinking stories are on the prowl, relentless in love, and ruthless in betrayal.
0-87286-266-6
$11.95
Charles Bukowski
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN
"Crazy romantic tales by the poet laureate of the L.A. netherworld." -- Newsweek
0-87286-156-2
$14.95
Charles Bukowski
NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
". . . a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life." Publishers Weekly
0-87286-074-4
$14.95
Charles Bukowski
TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS
More of the master's inimitable down-but-never-out stories. Sequel to The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.
0-87286-155-4
$14.95
William S. Burroughs
THE BURROUGHS FILE
Vintage W.S.B--malefic, mordant, hilarious--with pages from the legendary cut-up scrapbooks.
0-87286-152-X
$14.95
William S. Burroughs
THE YAGE LETTERS
Epistolary novel in which Burroughs writes Ginsberg from the Amazon about his search for the ultimate hallucinogenic experience.
0-87286-004-3
$10.95
Dino Campana
ORPHIC SONGS
Translated by Isidore Lawrence Salomon
Pocket Poets Series No. 54
Written on the eve of the First World War, Campana's poems leap across the boundaries of language.
Bilingual text.
0-087286-340-9
$12.95
Neal Cassady
THE FIRST THIRD
Real-life hero of Kerouac's novels tells his own fast-driving story as a hustling, vagrant youth Out West.
0-87286-005-1
$15.95
Sara Chin
BELOW THE LINE
A collection of short stories that speaks from the heart about the the many facets of the Chinese immigrant experience.
0-87286-331-X
$9.95
Ward Churchill
FANTASIES OF THE MASTER RACE
Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians
Literature and art crafted by the dominant culture are an insidious political force, disinforming people who might otherwise develop a clearer understanding of Native American struggles.
0-87286-348-4
$16.95
CITY LIGHTS BLANK JOURNAL
This handsome and hip blank book will appeal to anyone with a yen to put thoughts to words. Spiral-bound with 200 unlined pages, it opens easily and lays flat, ideal for sketching and writing with ease. The elegant black linen cover is embossed with silver lettering, a quote from the blistering opening lines of Allen Ginsbergs landmark epic poem, "Howl," a City Lights classic from the Beat Generation.
0-87286-396-4
$10.00
CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.
Fortieth-anniversary collection of poems from the famous series.
Hardcover
0-87286-311-5
$18.95
Jonathan Cohen
APART FROM FREUD
Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis
Diverging from vituperative debates between the "Freud bashers" and the orthodox Freudians, this critique of psychoanalysis examines Freud's background assumptions in biology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and moral and social philosophy in order to develop an alternative practice that challenges authoritarian traditions and fosters individual freedom and responsible action in the world.
0-87286-378-6
$18.95
Adam Cornford
ANIMATIONS
Pocket Poets Series No. 45
A man's body full of selves, imagining the real.
0-87286-208-9
$5.95
Gregory Corso
GASOLINE
Pocket Poets Series No. 8
His first and greatest books here in one volume: The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Gasoline.
0-87286-088-4
$8.95
Julio Cortázar
SAVE TWILIGHT
Selected Poems
Pocket Poets Series No. 53
Translated by Stephen Kessler
Cortázar's poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentine sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
0-87286-333-6
$12.95
Gil Cuadros
CITY OF GOD
Unsparing narratives about growing up in L.A. Chicano neighborhoods, coming out in Hollywood bars, and living with AIDS. Stories "as dire as they are beautiful." --Bernard Cooper
0-87286-295-X
$9.95
René Daumal
THE POWERS OF THE WORD
Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943
Translated by Mark Polizzoti
Enticements to revolt, literary and philosophical essays, spiritual meditations.
0-87286-259-3
$12.95
Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden
SECRET ORAL TEACHINGS IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST SECTS
"...this is the most direct, no-nonsense, and down-to-earth explanation of Mahayana Buddhism that has been written. Specifically, it is a wonderfully lucid account of the Middle Way method of enlightenment worked out by the great Indian sage Nagarjuna." Alan Watts
0-87286-012-4
$8.95
Gilles Deleuze
SPINOZA, PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
Translated by Robert Hurley
Elegant new reading of the Ethics, an incitement to resist the technocentric world.
0-87286-218-6
$12.95
Leslie Dick
KICKING
Witty novel about today's young artists and writers in London and New York.
0-87286-282-8
$10.95
Leslie Dick
WITHOUT FALLING
"Fierce, surprising, like real life . . . an ungenteel scalpel of a novel." --Angela Carter
0-87286-224-0
$6.95
Diane Di Prima
PIECES OF A SONG
Selected Poems
Monumental collection by this Beat poet, political activist, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner.
0-87286-237-2
$14.95
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
NOTES ON THOUGHT AND VISION
Aphoristic meditation on the creative process by this stellar Imagist poet.
0-87286-141-4
$9.95
Rikki Ducornet
ENTERING FIRE
The bizarre exploits of two brothers: one evil, the other good in a novel of profound ideas. "A drastically beautiful comic writer . . . as if Proust had gone into partnership with Lenny Bruce." -- City Limits
0-87286-355-7
$10.95
Isabelle Eberhardt
THE OBLIVION SEEKERS
Translated by Paul Bowles
Tales of North Africa by legendary vagabond scholar. "One of the strangest documents that a women has given to the world." --Cecily Mackworth
0-87286-082-5
$10.95
Janice Eidus
THE CELIBACY CLUB
Nineteen short stories by the two-time winner of the prestigious O. Henry Prize. By turns erotic, funny, bawdy, and poignant, they explore contemporary obsessions with sex, Prozac, vampires, James Dean, and rock icons Axl Rose and Elvis--all with dazzling range.
0-87286-322-0
$9.95
Janice Eidus
URBAN BLISS
A "whimsical, clean, and fast-paced read, both sexy and savvy, about punctured promises and deception. . . . Eidus's seriously funny world [is] anything but safe." -- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
0-87286-339-5
$9.95
Janice Eidus
VITO LOVES GERALDINE
Short stories that cast a sharp eye on contemporary myths of romance, rebellion, and self-discovery. "Inventive and darkly amusing." -- New York Times Book Review
0-87286-247-X
$11.95
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.
CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY
Fortieth-anniversary collection of poems from the famous series.
Hardcover
0-87286-311-5
$18.95
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.
ENDS AND BEGINNINGS
City Lights Review No. 6
A glimpse at the fin de siecle: Fo, Pasolini, Pound, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Codrescu, Blanco, Schelling, D.H. Lawrence, Waldman, Vlasenko, Reed.
0-87286-292-5
$10.00
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD
Pocket Poets Series No. 1
Second, expanded edition, with eighteen new poems.
0-87286-303-4
$7.95
Karen Finley
SHOCK TREATMENT
"Provocative performances lambasting misogyny, homophobia, and the coercion of bodies and minds. "It should not go unread." Publishers Weekly
0-87286-252-6
$11.95
Charles Henri Ford
OUT OF THE LABYRINTH
Selected Poems
"There are few poets writing today whose work is at once so personal and so prophetic."
H. Reed
0-87286-251-8
$6.95
Cola Franzen, tr.
POEMS OF ARAB ANDALUSIA
From the high Moorish civilization in Spain, ideas "more subtle than the West Wind, and language more beautiful than a fair Face." --Codex Ibn Said
0-87286-242-9
$12.95
Paul Garon
BLUES AND THE POETIC SPIRIT
"A new and important approach to the analysis of the blues as psychpoetic phenomenon..." Samuel Floyd
0-87286-315-8
$14.95
Jaime Gil de Biedma
LONGING
Selected Poems
Translated by James Nolan
The most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war--ironic and urbane, satiric and sensually Mediterranean.
Bilingual text.
0-87286-277-1
$9.95
Allen Ginsberg
THE FALL OF AMERICA
Poems of These States 1965-1971
Pocket Poets Series No. 30
Vietnam-era poems of rage and compassion. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
0-87286-063-9
$10.95
Allen Ginsberg
HOWL AND OTHER POEMS
Pocket Poets Series No. 4
World literature classic--the one, the only, the original HOWL! Over a million copies in print around the world. The poem that made history in 1956, setting a First Amendment freedom of speech precedent.
0-87286-017-5
$6.95
Allen Ginsberg
HOWL AND OTHER POEMS
Pocket Poets Series No. 4
Special 40th anniversary hardcover edition.
0-87286-310-7
$12.95
Allen Ginsberg
KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS
1958-1960
Pocket Poets Series No. 14
"Kaddish," "To Aunt Rose," "At Apollinaire's Grave," and more.
0-87286-019-1
$8.95
Allen Ginsberg
MIND BREATHS
1972-1977
Pocket Poets Series No. 35
"On Neruda's Death," "Who Runs America?" "Jaweh and Allah Battle," and more.
0-87286-092-2
$8.95
Allen Ginsberg
PLANET NEWS
1961-1967
Pocket Poets Series No. 23
"Kraj Majales," "Who Be Kind to?" "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express," and more.
0-87286-020-5
$8.95
Allen Ginsberg
PLUTONIAN ODE
1977-1980
Pocket Poets Series No. 40
Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. "Father Guru," "Don't Grow Old," "Nagasaki Days," "Bird Brain," and more.
0-87286-125-2
$8.95
Allen Ginsberg
REALITY SANDWICHES
1953-1960
Pocket Poets Series No.18
"Over Kansas," "American Change," "Siesta in Xbalba," "The Green Automobile," and more.
0-87286-021-3
$8.95
Thomas Glave
WHOSE SONG? AND OTHER STORIES
"A fiercely imagined debut--intensely lyric, driven by the desire in the face of everything for truth, justice, beauty." --Carole Maso
0-87286-375-1
$12.95
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
TALES FOR TRANSFORMATION
Translated by Scott Thompson
Nature's mysteries, androgynous consciousness, and sparks from the athanor flicker in and out of these novellas of self-mastery and transformation.
0-87286-363-8
$11.95
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
THE NEW WORLD BORDER
Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
Performance texts, poems, and essays explore America's irrational fears of otherness and hybridization.
0-87286-313-1
$16.95
Carla Harryman
THERE NEVER WAS A ROSE WITHOUT A THORN
Operatic texts that combine social comedy, detection, philosophy, storytelling, and language games.
0-87286-301-8
$10.95
Perry Higman, ed. and trans.
LOVE POEMS FROM SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA
Sixty-five poems, medieval to modern. "A sensual and charming collection." -- Library Journal
Bilingual text.
0-87286-183-X
$12.95
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