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Where Shadows Will
Selected Poems 1988-2008
Av Norma Cole
Häftad, 2009
190 kr
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The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, Where Shadows Will selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter, and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of the Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and experimental poetry whose shadow-haunted landscapes …
Trance Archive
New and Selected Poems
Av Andrew Joron
Häftad, 2010
177 kr
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Since his post-9/11 essay "The Emergency," Andrew Joron has been regarded as one of American poetry's most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws on over twenty years of Joron's work, from his early science fiction poetry to his later fusion of surrealist romanticism and avant-garde …
Compression & Purity
Häftad, 2011
177 kr
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The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angeles--based African American surrealist Will Alexander. Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aime Cesaire and Cesar Vallejo, Alexander here returns to shorter …
Waifs and Strays
Häftad, 2011
174 kr
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In the sixth publication in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series, Cajun poet Micah Ballard's Waifs and Strays recombines the allure, fixations, and diction of the metaphysical poets with the alert and streetwise urban fracturing and amazements instantaneous in contemporary San Francisco. With …
Advice for Lovers
City Lights Spotlight #7
Häftad, 2012
177 kr
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Inspired by Ovid's instructional Ars Amatoria, with overtones of Renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a highly wrought volume of poems. Intricately formal but saucy and contemporary in diction, Advice for Lovers walks a fine line between the anything-goes orthography of the Elizabethans …
Tranquilized Tongue
City Lights Spotlight No. 11
Av Eric Baus
Häftad, 2014
174 kr
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In the tradition of French poets like Francis Ponge, Pierre Reverdy, and Rene Char, The Tranquilized Tongue offers a series of prose meditations in the form of surrealist declaratives, each sentence unfolding like an alchemical riddle in which sounds, images, and figures appear, dissolve, and …
Deep Code
Av John Coletti
Häftad, 2015
172 kr
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Combining a bent lyric perception with a fragmentation redolent of French cubism, Coletti portrays contemporary urban experience, from power relations and personal loss to nights among city dwellers recording their convivial distress, glad and dissolute at once. Part teddy bear fleeing the cultish …
Women in Public
Av Elaine Kahn
Häftad, 2015
190 kr
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"Elaine Kahn's poems touch me somewhere deep."--Kim Gordon In Women in Public, the debut full-length collection by poet/musician Elaine Kahn, personal philosophies and collective admissions are put through the corporeal grinder, harnessing the sensual as a medium for the cerebral in order to …
Out of Print
City Lights Spotlight No. 14
Häftad, 2016
172 kr
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The third full-length collection by Julien Poirier, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume, reflecting the poet's years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism, a series of quips …
Holy Ghost
Av David Brazil
Häftad, 2017
172 kr
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2018 California Book Award Finalist The third full-length collection from poet-scholar-activist David Brazil, Holy Ghost is a hymnal with secular burdens, poured from the mold of our actual life in common, sung against its limits. It seeks a way to find and build a soul together, and records the …
Invocation to Daughters
City Lights Spotlight No. 16
Häftad, 2017
177 kr
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2018 California Book Award Finalist Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. "Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into 'capital, collateral, damaged soul.' However, the …
More Gone
City Lights Spotlight No. 18
Häftad, 2019
177 kr
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A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. More Gone, number 18 in the Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow-up to his well-received memoir Can It!Written in a distinctive mix of New York quotidian …
Natch
City Lights Spotlight No. 20
Häftad, 2020
177 kr
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Queer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection.Sophia Dahlin’s first full-length collection, Natch, is a dazzling array of queer erotic lyrics demanding pasture in the romantic sublime. By turns dreamy, hysterical, earthy, and perverse, the poems of …
Before Whiteness
City Lights Spotlight No. 21
Häftad, 2022
172 kr
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Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of inscribing and decoding Blackness in poetry, …
Metamorphoses
City Lights Spotlight No. 22
Av Evan Kennedy
Häftad, 2023
135 kr
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One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023Metamorphoses springs from Ovid’s epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience. In poems that shift registers from travelogue to elegy, from nature documentary to a simple record …
Lucky Charms
New & Selected Poems, 2000–2025
Häftad, 2026
184 kr
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One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for 2026A career-spanning Southern Goth infusion into the California poetic tradition of eco-social consciousness." . . . you'll find notes on last night's dreams, the precise hue and texture of this morning's clouds, that day's newly …
Free Cell
Häftad, 2009
172 kr
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The second volume of our City Lights Spotlight Poetry series, Free Cell is the latest book of poems from New York-based poet Anselm Berrigan, one of the most influential American poets under the age of forty. In a departure from his previous work, Free Cell consists of two experimental suites, …
Stranger in Town
Av Cedar Sigo
Häftad, 2010
146 kr
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The fourth installment of our Spotlight poetry series, Stranger in Town is the second full-length collection by San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo. Reflecting queer identity while eschewing all cliches, Stranger exudes an urban mysticism redolent of the SF Renaissance--particularly John Weiners--as it …
Nervous Device
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 8
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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In Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner takes inspiration from William Blake's "bounding line" to explore the poem as a body at the intersection between poet and audience. Using this as a figure for sexual, political and economic interactions, Wagner's poems shift between seductive lyricism and brash …
Joie de Vivre
Selected Poems 1992-2012
Av Lisa Jarnot
Häftad, 2013
159 kr
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Inspired by the Beats, Black Mountain, and the New York School, Lisa Jarnot emerged in the 1990s as one of the foremost poets of the post-Language avant-garde. Joie de Vivre draws on twenty years of work, from the bold fragmentation of her mixed media debut, Some Other Kind of Mission, to the …
Here Come the Warm Jets
Av Alli Warren
Häftad, 2013
172 kr
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"Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."--Booklist Charged with swagger and sensuality, tenderness and cold fact, the 10th Spotlight series installment, Here Come the Warm Jets, is the brash debut volume by Bay Area poet Alli Warren. …
Cruel Futures
City Lights Spotlight No. 17
Häftad, 2018
167 kr
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Cruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp-witted, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet, in a country on the precipice of profound change …
Facing You
City Lights Spotlight No. 19
Av Uche Nduka
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.Facing You is a collection of love lyrics, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche …
