Books from City Lights Publishers

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y....
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y....
    By Frederick Douglass, Angela Y. Davis

    A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis

  • Absence of the Hero
    Absence of the Hero
    By Charles Bukowski

    The catcher yelled something and tossed the ball back. A bird skipped through the air, up and down, going somewhere, very fast. Chelaski spit and stared at the birthmark on the ground. The ground was very dry. Ball one.

  • Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
    Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
    By Todd Miller

    "In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style ...

  • The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir
    The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir
    By Susan Daitch

    As a succession of explorers and shady characters dig deeper into the landscape, the ancient secret of Suolucidir is gradually revealed. This is brainy, escapist fiction at its best.

  • Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
    Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
    By Ralph Nader

    "--Publishers Weekly "This book is short, easy to read, and deserves more than five stars. Nader speaks for the average American, and backs up his arguments with facts. This is extremely highly recommended.

  • Whose Song?: And Other Stories
    Whose Song?: And Other Stories
    By Thomas Glave

    Kitts and Nevis. The dreadlock-framed long eyelashes of San Andres and Providencia. ... That's because I'm a person of quality. Soy una persona de calidad. Cal-i-dad. That was what she was thinking when the urge to vomit came upon her ...

  • Paper Conspiracies
    Paper Conspiracies
    By Susan Daitch

    “Hello, is this Frances L. Baum?” “Yes.” “My name is Jack Kews ofOmnibus Film Archives, London. I'm calling about a film entitled The Dreyfus Affair, which I be- lieve your company is working on.” “What did you say your name was?

  • In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
    In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
    By Benjamin Hedin

    The years following passage of the Voting Rights Act, Ginsberg wrote, saw the rise of secondgeneration barriers, or “efforts to reduce the impact of minority votes, in contrast to direct attempts to block access to the ballot.

  • Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames
    Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames
    By Beth Lisick

    Swee- ney and Rob Down Periscope Schneider were partying in the club. When Julia's show was over, I rushed across town to make sure everything was ready for the party. I was a little concerned that it took me twenty- ve minutes to get ...

  • Annie Oakley's Girl
    Annie Oakley's Girl
    By Rebecca Brown

    I find a lacy handkerchief in the beaded bag beside me and gently dab at my neck and upper lip and forehead. Then I pull out my embroidery and try to teach her how to stitch. Tonight I undo Annie's braids. She sits facing the boudoir ...

  • Bed of Sphinxes: Selected Poems
    Bed of Sphinxes: Selected Poems
    By Philip Lamantia

    Allen Ginsberg wrote that Philip Lamantia was one of his poetic teachers, an American soothsayer on the level of Edgar Allen Poe, and I don't know how much more encouragement you'd need to check out this stunning collection.

  • Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    By Diane di Prima

    "Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is ...

  • The Poetry Deal
    The Poetry Deal
    By Diane di Prima

    The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.

  • The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
    The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
    By Angela Y. Davis

    I guess they still believe in Adam Smith's “invisible hand,” that somehow or another freedom will reveal itself. But when we look at the extent to which countries in the southern region have been devastated by the juggernaut of ...

  • Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe
    Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe
    By Carl Ruck

    A fascinating tour of the mushroom-centered mystery religions which have profoundly influenced Western civilization

  • History as Mystery
    History as Mystery
    By Michael Parenti

    G. Robert Blakey, “The Mafia and JFK's Murder,” Washington Post Weekly Edition, November 15–21, 1993: 23–24. Blakey received space in the Post because, ... Charley Shively, letter to the editor, Journal of History, 82 (June 1995): 389.

  • Tau By Philip Lamantia and Journey to the End By John Hoffman: Pocket Poets Number 59
    Tau By Philip Lamantia and Journey to the End By John Hoffman: Pocket Poets Number 59
    By John Hoffman, Philip Lamantia

    Two new books from the classic Beat period: mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the long-lost "Six Gallery" poems by legendary hipster John Hoffman.

  • The Burroughs File
    The Burroughs File
    By William S. Burroughs

    Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers.

  • The Yage Letters Redux
    The Yage Letters Redux
    By William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg

    In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon.

  • The Yage Letters
    The Yage Letters
    By William S. Burroughs

    William S. Burroughs. THE YAGE LETTERS William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg Y Y CITY LIGHTS BOOKS San Francisco © 1963 , 1975 by William S. Burroughs & Allen.