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In a small conservative Florida town in the 1980s, several people accused Dr. David Acer, a dentist, of infecting them with HIV. David's gayness, and sickly appearance from his own AIDS-related...

A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One) (City Lights Open Media)Author: Alan HirschPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Mar 17, 2020Number of...

Artaud AnthologyAuthor: Antonin ArtaudPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Jan 01, 2001Number of Pages: 253 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0872860000ISBN-13:...

Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21Author: D. S MarriottPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Apr 26, 2022Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Blackshirts And Reds: Rational Fascism And The Overthrow Of CommunismAuthor: Michael ParentiPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Jun 01, 1997Number of Pages: 165 pagesLanguage:...

A rhapsodic follow-up to Tongo Eisen-Martin's Heaven is All Goodbyes, this collection further explores themes of love and loss, family and faith, refracted through the lens of Black experience. These...

In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders. "Todd Miller cuts through the facile media myths and...

Bob Kaufman's life is written on mirrors in smoke.--Jack Kerouac "So much did he embody a French tradition of the poet as outsider, madman, and outcast, that in France, Kaufman was called the Black...

A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. Cruel Futures, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Gim?nez Smith, is a witchy...

Hip Hop's larger-than-life emcees and famous couples inspire spoken word couplets, sonnets and prosepoems. Fiercely intelligent, emotionally packed, righteously feminist.Author: Chinaka...

Sparing neither family nor self he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people's favor. His candor is invigorating."-Publishers Weekly" One of the most brilliant,...

Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.Author: Mumia Abu-JamalPublisher: City...

Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 63)Author: Will AlexanderPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Nov 29, 2022Number of...

In gritty, sometimes fantastical stories about Latinx life, women challenge feminine stereotypes and make sense of fractured family histories.Author: Carribean FragozaPublisher: City Lights...

A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope.Author: Juan Felipe HerreraPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date:...

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. "The real in Nduka's work carries the resonance not only of his...

Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully...

First ass: The U.S. Poal Service, Demoacyand the Corpate That (Open Mea Ser's)Author: City Lights BooksPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: NA...

Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.Author: Silvina OcampoPublisher: City Lights...

The much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott Heron, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde.Author: Tongo Eisen-MartinPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date:...

Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.Author: Barbara Jane ReyesPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication...

Lady Director: Adventures In Hollywood, Television And BeyondAuthor: Joyce ChopraPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: Nov 22, 2022Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An Iraq War vet's bracing, visionary response to the challenge posed by global warming and his hope in the humanities.Author: Roy ScrantonPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: October...

Abandoned by her husband, marooned by an epic snowstorm, a mother gives birth to her third child. Her sense of entrapment turns into a desperate rage in this unblinking portrait of a woman whose...

Queer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection.Author: Sophia DahlinPublisher: City Lights PublishersPublication Date: September 01, 2020Number of Pages:...

Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alem?n's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just...

Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border. The tradition of retablo painting dates back to the Spanish Conquest in both...

A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation. The U.S. and Iran are locked in a dangerous cycle...

Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on...

Acclaimed journalist Sonali Kolhatkar offers a timely handbook exploring the ways truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to counter racism and advance social justice in the U.S...