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Nawal El Saadawi MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN DOCTOR A young Egyptian female medical student overcomes social hypocrisy and social injustice to become a caring and successful physician. 0-87286-223-2 $8.95

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno THE CONTINUAL PILGRIMAGE American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 A biographical/historical portrait of of the postwar successors to the Lost Generation. 0-87286-334-4 $18.95

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, trans. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JAGUAR From the Books of Chilam Balam "Maya surrealism, dark with jungle shadows and bright with macaw plumage...." – Chicago Tribune 0-87286-210-0 $9.95

Andrew Schelling THE CANE GROVES OF NARMADA RIVER Erotic Poems from Old India "The Cane Groves is a brilliant selection of refined, provocative, shivery-lovely poems. . . . What a gem of book! It's the best gathering of Indian short poems yet." – Gary Snyder 0-87286-346-8 $9.95

Amy Scholder, ed. CRITICAL CONDITION Women on the Edge of Violence Domestic violence and women who kill: essays, performance monologues, art by Sapphire, Dorothy Allison, Wanda Coleman, Theory Girls, Carrie Mae Weems. 0-87286-285-2 $10.95

Victor Serge RESISTANCE Translated by James Brook Introduction by Richard Greeman Poems celebrating the people of the steppe, among whom this revolutionary humanist lived when he was exiled by Stalin. 0-87286-225-9 $5.95

Oz Shelach Picnic Grounds Part reportage, part parable, part excavation of history, this jigsaw puzzle of compelling tales constitutes an exile’s nostalgic tour into Israel’s culture of denial. Captivating in its beguiling, seeming simplicity, Picnic Grounds is a novel built from the layers of overlapping lives and stories, much like the villages and cities of Israel are constructed from a culture superimposed over the palimpsest of history. Landscape, language, and the manufacture of knowledge are deconstructed by a unique new voice, writing in a language that is not quite English, from a life that is anything but post-colonial. 0-87286-419-7 $11.95

Sam Shepard FOOL FOR LOVE & THE SAD LAMENT OF PECOS BILL In these plays: "Fresh news of love, here and now, in all its potency, deviousness, and foolishness, and of many other matters as well." –The New Yorker 0-87286-150-3 $10.95

Sam Shepard MOTEL CHRONICLES An autobiography "full of verbal delights as well as insights into his entire canon... he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West." – New York Times 0-87286-143-0 $10.95

Rebecca Solnit SECRET EXHIBITION Six California Artists Wallace Berman, Bruce Connor, Jess, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hendrick, and George Herms: artists that broke new ground with assemblage and mixed-media work during the Cold War period. With over 200 illustrations and 8 color pages. 0-87286-254-2 $17.95

Elizabeth Stromme Joe’s Word An Echo Park Novel City Lights Noir #5 In Echo Park, a neighborhood at the wrong end of Sunset Boulevard, Joe, a loner, lives marginally. Ironically, he finds himself becoming more involved than he’d planned in the lives of his clients, linked to their dreams and to their despair, and in some cases to their dirty secrets. This noir-style novel vividly brings to life an embattled community of mostly have-nots who attempt to thrive amid political battles over air rights and pollution trading, LAPD abuse, and assorted run-of-the-mill inner city murders. 0-87286-425-1 $11.95

Instant Karma by Mark Swartz Part Unabomber, part van Gogh, David Felsenstein yearns to create an unforgettable masterpiece. He browses the stacks of the Chicago Public Library in search of connections between obscure volumes, scrupulously footnoting his research into anarchy, magnetotherapy, Buddhism, plastic surgery, and much more. We read his journal, tracing his course through books and philosophies as he prepares his magnum opus — blowing up the library that he loves. 0-87286-408-1 $11.95

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Antonio Tabucchi DREAMS OF DREAMS andTHE LAST THREE DAYS OF FERNANDO PESSOA Translated from the Italian by Nancy J. Peters A City Lights/Italian Voices Book In Dreams of Dreams Tabucchi imagines the dreams of twenty artists he has loved and admired; in The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa, he gives a metaphysical recounting of the end of the poet Fernando Pessoa in a moving tribute to the man who invented the Portuguese avant-garde and reinvented the myth of Lisbon 0-87286-368-9 $10.95

Mutsuo Takahashi SLEEPING, SINNING, FALLING Translated by Hiroaki Sato A scintillating collection by a major voice in twentieth-century Japanese poetry. 0-87286-268-2 $8.95

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David L. Ulin ANOTHER CITY: WRITING FROM LOS ANGELES Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles 0-87286-391-3 $16.95

Ellen Ullman CLOSE TO THE MACHINE Technophilia and Its Discontents An autobiographical novel of a software engineer living on the cusp of the technological wave. Paperback 0-87286-332-8 $12.95

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Nanos Valaoritis MY AFTERLIFE GUARANTEED Witty meditations that open onto unexpected vistas of history, myth, language, and writing. 0-87286-248-8 $6.95

Andre VandenBroeck BREAKING THROUGH A Narrative of the Great Work An Italian cinematographer travels to Spain and investigates the origins of human language and consciousness. 0-87286-319-0 $15.95

Janine Pommy Vega TRACKING THE SERPENT Journeys into Four Continents The true-life adventures of a woman traveling four continents in search of knowledge and sites where female power was worshipped. 0-87286-327-1 $12.95

George Veltri NICE BOY An intoxicating comic novel about nice kids from Queens in the savage underbelly of New York City. 0-87286-302-6 $9.95

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Anne Waldman FAST SPEAKING WOMAN Chants and Essays Pocket Poets Series No. 33 Spells, invocations, laments, and ritual rants. "...one of the fastest, wisest women to run with the wolves in some time."– New York Times 0-87286-316-6 $10.95

Colin Wilson POETRY AND MYSTICISM Opening the floodgates of spiritual energy through poetic inspiration and mystic illumination. 0-87286-182-1 $12.95

John Wilson INK ON PAPER As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Musashi, Sengai, Shih K’o, Korin, Ku K’ai-chih, Kusumi Morikage, Taiga, and Kung K’ai. The succinct loveliness of the poems seems often as acute as the verses of Li Po and Tu Fu. Read a recent interview with John Wilson 0-87286-393-x $12.00

Peter Lamborn Wilson PLOUGHING THE CLOUDS The Search for Irish Soma A comparative study of mythology and folklore, exploring ancient Irish legends and Vedic scriptures. 0-87286-326-3 $14.95

Peter Lamborn Wilson SACRED DRIFT Essays on the Margins of Islam ". . . insurrectionary, elegant, dangerous, suffused with light, a search for poetic facts, a donation both from and to the tradition of spiritual anarchy." --Hakim Bey 0-87286-275-5 $13.95

Terry Wolverton Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman’s Building In Insurgent Muse, author Terry Wolverton tells of her thirteen-year involvement in the Woman’s Building. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project, and, eventually, executive director. Her journey—emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism—entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash. 0-87286-403-0 $16.95 Read a recent interview with author Terry Wolverton

John Wynne THE OTHER WORLD Stories as disturbing as they are unforgettable. "A book to handle with asbestos gloves, but well worth the walk through fire." – Paul Monette 0-87286-290-9 $9.95

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Daisy Zamora RIVERBED OF MEMORY Translated by Barbara Paschke Pocket Poets Series No. 49 Poems about the devastation of war and the courage and resilience of the Nicaraguan people. Bilingual text. 0-87286-273-9 $9.95

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