Books published by City Lights Books

The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today's anti-fascist/anti-racist movements.

A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States.

A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.

Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes-a memoir about growing up on the U.S./Mexico border.

From New York School scion and memoirist, a new book of poems considering domesticity in the heart of the city.

Four unpublished journals by a master of the form, one of the greatest American poets of the 20th Century.

Anarcho-socialism meets Christian mysticism in Occupy veteran's avant-garde poems.

The first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School prodigy and master of lyrical abstraction David Shapiro.

An Iraq War vet's bracing, visionary response to the challenge posed by global warming and his hope in the humanities.

A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives Matter.

First collection of Lowry's extensive poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano.

San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish.