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Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, a collection of one woman's most humiliating moments, revealed with wit and gusto.

A family in exile from their home in old Beirut contends with claustrophobic conditions, recriminations, and unrealizable dreams of return.

In contemporary Havana, "Do I stay or do I go?" is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all

If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of The Tranquilized Tongue.

The second volume in the City Lights Spotlight series--experimental poems by innovative New York poet and former St. Mark's Poetry Project director.

The international phase of the Beat Generation's story, documenting their travels and the tremendous influence it had on their writing.

Previously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th century American master.

Three never-before-translated books from Henri Michaux from the period of his mescaline experimentation, with drawings by the author and Matta.

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry is a compelling and humorous collection of poems by the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Poets.

Out of Print is a bicoastal surrealistic political poetry extravaganza from the co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse.

Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel.

A book for children - and their parents, teachers, and cool grown-up friends - documenting America's famous and unsung heroines

A major new collection from one of the most significant women poets of the SF Renaissance.

A dazzling exploration of the seduction of violence and spectacle in politics, culture, entertainment and everyday life

Far from a transgender transition tell-all, here is a personal yet universal story of charting one's course to ultimate self-recognition.

A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

A classic book of poetics by a major Beat Generation poet in a beautiful gift edition.

Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government.

The real story--and human price--of US/Mexico border enforcement.

A reissue of this classic, essential companion to Frank O'Hara's Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Bill Berkson.

Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths: McClure describes these tantras as "ceremonies to change the nature of reality."

Centennial edition of a classic work of cubist prose poetry with over 100 never before seen corrections by Stein herself.

With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti Glass offers an unflinching look at disaster, desire, and death-defying love.

Blistering essays critiquing how constant crisis has given rise to a new authoritarianism that threatens democracy, personal liberty and education.

Collection of writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination.

A cutting-edge analysis of the AfPak war involving Russia, India, China, and Iran, emphasizing US strategy and the people implementing it.

In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring appeal through the versions by Emilio Garcia Gomez. This poetry of Arab Andalusia made a profound impact on Spain's Generation of '27. Rafael Alberti says that it "was a revelation for me and had a great influence on my work, but above all influenced the work of Federico Garcia Lorca.

Profound portraits of the traumas of war, the ravages of homophobia, and the triumph of desire.

Mumia Abu-Jamal's essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society.