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LIGHT FROM A NEARBY WINDOW 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

CONCERNING THE ANGELS 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


KEYS TO THE GARDEN 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


Memories of Our Future Ammiel Alcalay
MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE
Introduction by Juan Goytisolo
In a mix of personal narrative, political commentary, and literary criticism, Alcalay surveys Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/Palestinean conflict, and the war in Bosnia.
0-87286-360-3
$17.95



AMAZON DREAM 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


INDIANS IN OVERALLS Jaime de Angulo
INDIANS IN OVERALLS
An account of living with the Achumawi tribe of Northeastern California.
0-87286-312-3
$8.95


ARTAUD ANTHOLOGY Antonin Artaud
ARTAUD ANTHOLOGY
Translated by Jack Hirschman
Essays on literature, theater, travel, prophetic and visionary texts.
0-87286-000-0
$14.95


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SECRET LANGUAGE 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


EROTISM 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


THE IMPOSSIBLE 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


STORY OF THE EYE 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


THE TEARS OF EROS 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


TWENTY PROSE POEMS 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


DAWN OF THE SENSES 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


Revolutionary Romanticism Max Blechman, ed.
REVOLUTIONARY ROMANTICISM
A Drunken Boat Anthology
In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow.
0-87286-351-4
$15.95



A Panorama Of American Film Noir Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton
A Panorama Of American Film Noir (1941–1953)
Translated from the French by Paul Hammond

A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir’s dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America.
0-87286-412-X
$16.95



Head Above Water 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


A HUNDRED CAMELS IN THE COURTYARD 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


MACUMBA 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


Stories of Mr. Keuner Bertolt Brecht
Stories of Mr. Keuner
Translated from the German by Martin Chalmers
Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, Stories of Mr. Keuner is the precipitate of Brecht's experience of a world in political and cultural flux, a world of revolution, civil war, world war, cultural efflorescence, Nazism, Stalinism, and the Cold War--in short, the first half of the twentieth century.
0-87286-383-2
$9.95



ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK HUMOR 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


RECLAIMING SAN FRANCISCO James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy J. Peters, eds.
RECLAIMING SAN FRANCISCO: HISTORY, POLITICS, CULTURE
A fascinating unearthing of lost, forgotten, and obscured histories of San Francisco. "A breathtaking ride through a dozen different cities called San Francisco." --Mike Davis
0-87286-335-2
$17.95



RESISTING THE VIRTUAL LIFE 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


ANNIE OAKLEY'S GIRL 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


THE DOGS Rebecca Brown
THE DOGS
A Modern Bestiary
Told in the medieval form of the bestiary, The Dogs is the story of a contemporary American woman tormented by a pack of Doberman pinschers that invade her home.
0-87286-344-1
$10.95



The End of Youth Rebecca Brown
The End of Youth
The End of Youth is a collection of thirteen linked stories, essays and rants about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone.
0-87286-418-9
$11.95


THE TERRIBLE GIRLS
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


THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN 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


NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN 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


TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS 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


SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE U.S. WAR Roger Burbach and Ben Clarke
SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE U.S. WAR
Beyond the Curtain of Smoke
co-published by City Lights and Freedom Voices
An informative collection of essays by journalists, activists, and political theorists providing the historical, political, and intellectual context for understanding the events and the consequences of September 11 and America's "War on Terrorism."
0-87286-404-9
$11.95


THE BURROUGHS FILE 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


THE YAGE LETTERS 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


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ORPHIC SONGS 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


THE FIRST THIRD 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


BELOW THE LINE 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


A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE Ward Churchill
A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE
Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
Examines the definition of genocide and explores the indigenous holocaust and its denial.
0-87286-323-9
$19.95


FANTASIES OF THE MASTER RACE 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


Perversions Of Justice Ward Churchill
Perversions Of Justice
Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law
The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is a "nation of laws, not of men." In Perversions of Justice, Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a series of eleven carefully crafted essays how the U.S. has consistently employed a corrupt form of legalism as a means of establishing colonial control and empire.
0-87286-411-1
$18.95



Struggle for the Land Ward Churchill
Struggle for the Land:
Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization
Ironically, the often remote and presumably useless fragments of geography set aside to keep Native Americans out of sight and mind has turned out to be some of the most resource-rich on the planet. Native Americans should thus be among the most affluent sectors of the population, but instead, they are the absolute poorest. The reason for this paradox is clear: the riches of North America’s indigenous nations continue to be channeled into the settler’s economy.
0-87286-414-6
$19.95



CITY LIGHTS BLANK JOURNAL 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 Ginsberg’s landmark epic poem, "Howl," a City Lights classic from the Beat Generation.
0-87286-396-4
$10.00



CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.
Fortieth-anniversary collection of poems from the famous series.
Hardcover
0-87286-311-5
$18.95


APART FROM FREUD 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


ANIMATIONS Adam Cornford
ANIMATIONS
Pocket Poets Series No. 45
A man's body full of selves, imagining the real.
0-87286-208-9
$5.95


GASOLINE 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


SAVE TWILIGHT 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


CITY OF GOD 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


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THE POWERS OF THE WORD 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


SECRET ORAL TEACHINGS IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST SECTS 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


Frigid Tales Pedro de Jesús
Frigid Tales
Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster
This beautiful and original collection of stories set in Cuba plays opportunely with realism and fiction to create a world divided into six tales that form an interlocked unity–forming a passionate novel that gives us a tour de force of alienation and erotic obsession by taking us deep into a world where sex is casual, but real love elusive.
0-87286-399-9
$11.95



SPINOZA, PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY 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


KICKING Leslie Dick
KICKING
Witty novel about today's young artists and writers in London and New York.
0-87286-282-8
$10.95


WITHOUT FALLING Leslie Dick
WITHOUT FALLING
"Fierce, surprising, like real life . . . an ungenteel scalpel of a novel." --Angela Carter
0-87286-224-0
$6.95


PIECES OF A SONG 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


NOTES ON THOUGHT AND VISION 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


ENTERING FIRE 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


THE MONSTROUS AND THE MARVELOUS Rikki Ducornet
THE MONSTROUS AND THE MARVELOUS
In these essays, Ducornet, champion of serendipity and the imagination, dissects strange attractors, enchanted alphabets, theaters of desire, and politics as a way of dreaming.
0-87286-354-9
$12.95



Outlaw Woman Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975
Dunbar-Ortiz worked in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade and formed associations with other revolutionaries across the spectrum of radical and underground politics, including the SDS, the Weather Underground, the Revolutionary Union, and the African National Congress. But unlike the majority of those in the New Left, Dunbar-Ortiz grew up poor, female, and part-Indian in rural Oklahoma, and she often found herself at odds not only with the ruling class but also with the Left and with the women’s movement.
0-87286-390-5
$17.95



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THE OBLIVION SEEKERS 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


THE CELIBACY CLUB 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


URBAN BLISS 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


VITO LOVES GERALDINE 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


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CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.
CITY LIGHTS POCKET POETS ANTHOLOGY
Fortieth-anniversary collection of poems from the famous series.
Hardcover
0-87286-311-5
$18.95


ENDS AND BEGINNINGS 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


PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD 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


SAN FRANCISCO POEMS Lawrence Ferlinghetti
SAN FRANCISCO POEMS
San Francisco Poet Laureate Series #1
San Francisco's first Poet Laureate (1999-2000) has collected here all of his poems set in the city he has lived in for over a half a century.
dreaming.
1-931404-01-1
$9.95


SHOCK TREATMENT 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


OUT OF THE LABYRINTH 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


POEMS OF ARAB ANDALUSIA 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


DISTANCE NO OBJECT Gloria Frym
DISTANCE NO OBJECT
by Gloria Frym
The private lives of the once-radical college town of Berkeley are swept along by the currents of history, just as they were thirty years ago.
0-87286-358-1
$10.95



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BLUES AND THE POETIC SPIRIT 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


LONGING 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


THE FALL OF AMERICA 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


HOWL AND OTHER POEMS 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


HOWL AND OTHER POEMS Allen Ginsberg
HOWL AND OTHER POEMS
Pocket Poets Series No. 4
Special 40th anniversary hardcover edition.
0-87286-310-7
$12.95


KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 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


MIND BREATHS 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


PLANET NEWS 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


PLUTONIAN ODE 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


REALITY SANDWICHES 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


Travels With Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg
Travels With Ginsberg:
A Postcard Book: Allen Ginsberg Photographs 1944- 1995
Edited by Bill Morgan
Here in the form of twenty detachable postcards are photographs taken over the years on the poet's many travels and trips abroad. Pictures include: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso in Mexico; Burroughs and Bowles in Tangier; Snyder in Japan; and Ginsberg in India and Prague.
0-87286-397-2
$9.95



WHOSE SONG? AND OTHER STORIES 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



TALES FOR TRANSFORMATION 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


CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice
CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS
From Columbus to the Border Patrol

Inspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this artists book opens out in accordion folds expanding to a length of over 21 feet.
Clothbound (accordion fold with spine; full color)
0-87286-367-0
$22.95



THE NEW WORLD BORDER 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


THE MARX FAMILY SAGA Juan Goytisolo
THE MARX FAMILY SAGA
Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush
A resurrected Karl Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts and hamburger freedom are all the rage, and returns to a Hampstead housewarming reception and ball filmed by the cameras for a Merchant-Ivorish Red Baroness. . . . "The most important living novelist from Spain." – Guardian
0-87286-349-2
$10.95



Landscapes of War Juan Goytisolo
Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya
Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush
Introduction by Tariq Ali

These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide rich historical analysis and moving first-person reportage of life in four explosive war zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya.
0-87286-373-5
$16.95



State of Siege Juan Goytisolo
State of Siege
Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane
A traveller looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disapeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures.
ISBN: 0-87286-406-5
$13.95



HORSES IN THE AIR AND OTHER POEMS Jorge Guillén
HORSES IN THE AIR AND OTHER POEMS
Translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen
A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge Guillén's luminous poetry is  marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision.
0-87286-352-2
$15.95



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Danger And Beauty Jessica Hagedorn
Danger And Beauty
In Danger and Beauty Hagedorn muses about love and sex; mysticism and drugs; and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart—and heartbreaks—of the immigrant experience.
0-87286-387-6
$16.95



Constellations of Miro, Breton Paul Hammond
CONSTELLATIONS OF MIRÓ, BRETON
Joan Miró's gouaches as read through André Breton's poems as read through the biographies of these two Surrealists in exile during the Second World War--a mad history that haunts us still.
0-87286-372-7
$18.95



The Shadow and Its Shadow Paul Hammond, ed. and trans.
THE SHADOW AND ITS SHADOW
Surrealist Writings on the Cinema

The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical re-visions of the seventh art in this anthology document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. Essayists include Breton, Aragon, Desnos, Dalí, Buñuel, and Man Ray, & more.
0-87286-376-X
$17.95



There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn 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


LOTERÍA CARDS AND FORTUNE POEMS Juan Felipe Herrera and Artemio Rodríguez
LOTERÍA CARDS AND FORTUNE POEMS
A Book of Lives
Introduction by Rupert García
A unique cross-border collaboration, a seamless union of Mexican and Mexican American sensibilities. Rodriguez's exquisite linocuts are paired with Herrera's hallucinatory poetry to give a modern interpretation of the popular game of lotería.
0-87286-359-X
$15.95



LOVE POEMS FROM SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA 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


Hectic Ethics Francisco Hinojosa
HECTIC ETHICS
Translated from the Spanish by Kurt Hollander
Eight masterly stories convey a mercilessly sardonic view of family and society, and his ingenious array of anti-heroes embodies a conspicuous disdain for conventions. Hinojosa is the recipient of Mexico's National Prize for the Short Story.
0-87286-347-6
$9.95



Front Lines Jack Hirschman
Front Lines
Pocket Poets Series #55
In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic output, spanning many years and mutations. When he reads aloud, the words take fire, and on the page they crackle and spark.
0-87286-400-6
$15.95


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