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By: Hal Niedzviecki
ISBN: 9780872864993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: City Lights Books
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One man's journey through a rapidly transforming culture of lying, spying, revealing, and confessing.
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By: Hassan Daoud
ISBN: 9780872866232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A family in exile from their home in old Beirut contends with claustrophobic conditions, recriminations, and unrealizable dreams of return.
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By: Diane Di Prima
ISBN: 9781931404150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: City Lights Books
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The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.
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By: Ren Daumal
ISBN: 9780872862593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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By: Paul Hammond
ISBN: 9780872863767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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This text is a compilation of primary sources for the appreciation of the Surrealist contribution to cinema and film criticism. This revised and expanded third edition adds new selections to the tables of contents as well as a new introduction by the editor.
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By: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
ISBN: 9780872864788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: City Lights Books
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The literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer ebel.
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By: Asli Erdogan
ISBN: 9780872867505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Vivid stories from one of Turkey's most admired contemporary female authors, whose political ties have landed her in Turkish prison.
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By: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780872862227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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By: Rebecca Brown
ISBN: 9780872862661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible-relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out.
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By: Thomas Glave
ISBN: 9780872864665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Profound portraits of the traumas of war, the ravages of homophobia, and the triumph of desire.
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By: Eric Baus
ISBN: 9780872866164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: City Lights Books
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If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of "The Tranquilized Tongue."
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By: Henry A. Giroux
ISBN: 9780872866195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Blistering essays critiquing how constant crisis has given rise to a new authoritarianism that threatens democracy, personal liberty and education.
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By: Abdellatif Labi
ISBN: 9780872864139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Poems with great lyric power treat the heritage, history, and aspirations of Morocco and the Arab world.
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By: Carla Harryman
ISBN: 9780872863019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Carla Harryman is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer. Her works include Memory Play, Animal Instincts, In the Mode of, Vice, The Middle, Property, Under the Bridge, and Percentage.
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By: Gillian Conoley
ISBN: 9780872866485
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Three never-before-translated books from Henri Michaux from the period of his mescaline experimentation, with drawings by the author and Matta.
(Paperback)
By: John Gibler
ISBN: 9780872865174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: City Lights Books
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On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexicos drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler.
(Paperback)
By: John Gibler
ISBN: 9780872867529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: City Lights Books
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The real-life story of a political insurgent who was disappeared by the Mexican Army and miraculously escaped to tell the tale.
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By: Andrew Joron
ISBN: 9780872865303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Like a chance encounter between Einstein and Breton, Trance Archive embraces philosophy, science, and surrealism.
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By: Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780872863972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A selection of candid photographs by a founding member of the Beat Generation.
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By: Jacqueline Houtman
ISBN: 9780872867659
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: City Lights Books
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This biography of Bayard Rustin for young readers depicts his life of nonviolent activism and resistance.
(Hardback)
By: David Meltzer
ISBN: 9780872866508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A classic book of poetics by a major Beat Generation poet in a beautiful gift edition.
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By: Tim Wise
ISBN: 9780872866935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A scalding indictment of how the wealthy influence the national economy, politics, and media to disadvantage those less fortunate.
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By: Jean Daive
ISBN: 9780872868083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: City Lights Books
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An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.
United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)
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By: Mickey Huff
ISBN: 9780872867673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.
