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For Hirschman, the political is the most lyrical. This fine selection of his poetry embodies both.

Essential interviews with makers of the San Francisco Beat Scene by one of their own.

Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered, diverse, and extremely fertile literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

This text contains eight stylistically distinct stories, connected by threads of African American and gay experience, as well as Caribbean American culture and history.

This text features essays from Ammiel Alcalay covering Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the war in Bosnia, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the destruction of Carthage, and much more.

An indispensable anthology of brilliant hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, & Andre Breton shed light on Poe's relevance within European literary tradition.

The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.

The inside story of how Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together.

Perloff's memoir of her career in the theater offers a provocative, passionate and deeply personal view of theater's role today.

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

Making the Future presents more than fifty concisely argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.

The deluxe fiftieth anniversary edition.

Like a chance encounter between Einstein and Breton, Trance Archive embraces philosophy, science, and surrealism.

An insider tells how environmentalists and animal rights activists have become "the number one domestic terrorism threat."

A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.

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

Over Kansas, 'American Change,' 'Siesta in Xbalba,' 'The Green Automobile,' and more.

In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry and in poems, Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy."Humanity is faced with a double perspective: in one direction, violent pleasure, horror and death-precisely the perspective of poetry-and in the opposite direction, that of science or the real world of utility. Only the useful, the real, have a serious character. We are never within our rights in preferring seduction to it: truth has rights over us. Indeed it has every right. And yet we can, and indeed we must respond to something which, not being God, is stronger than every right, that impossible to which we accede only by forgetting the truth of all these rights."-Georges BatailleGeorges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French intellectual and literary icon who wrote essays, novels and poems exploring philosophical and sociological subjects such as eroticism and surrealism. City Lights published more of Bataille's works including Erotism, The Tears of Eros and Story of the Eye.

Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with more boozy tales of extraordinary madness.

Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.

Important, uncollected work from one of the most infamous, over-the-top writers of American literature.

A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations.

New England Puritanism meets West Coast hedonism in an inventive remix of America's cultural history.

The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents, and photographs.

The literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel.

"Tells more about Iraq than many commentaries being offered up these days." --Le Monde

Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.

Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on power, history, politics and culture.

Poems for social justice by San Francisco's poet laureate, including his autobiographical inaugural address.

Two lost Beat generation books: mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the legendary poems of John Hoffman.