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Welcome to City Lights! Co-founded by poet/painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

New From City Lights!

CIty Lights proudly presents, The Essential Neruda, an exceptional collection of the works of Pablo Neruda

One hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever. This collection presents fifty of Neruda's most essential poems in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world's leading Neruda scholars. 2004 marks the centennial of Pablo Neruda's birth, and there will be numerous events and celebrations worldwide to mark it. See here for more information.


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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Broadside Featured Item from City Lights

Signed, Limited Edition Broadside
of "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see," the first poem in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind.
Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Designed and printed by Katherine Case at the San Francsico Center for the Book on the occasion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's reading October 18, 2003.
$50.00
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