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City Lights Publishers

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No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements

James Tracy and Hilary Moore

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No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements

James Tracy and Hilary Moore

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Facing You

Uche Nduka

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Little Hill

Alli Warren

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Every Day We Get More Illegal

Juan Felipe Herrera

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ReTargeting Iran

David Barsamian and Ervand Abrahamian

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A Short History of Presidential Election Crises

Alan Hirsch

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The Green New Deal and Beyond

Stan Cox and Noam Chomsky

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Surrealism : Inside the Magnetic Fields

Penelope Rosemont

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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

Bob Kaufman and devorah major

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ELADATL

Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo

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Death Blossoms

Mumia Abu-Jamal and Cornel West

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Race Man

Michael G. Long and Julian Bond

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We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States

Michael Long

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Venture of the Infinite Man

Pablo Neruda

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White Lies Matter

Tim Wise (Author)

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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry

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Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism

Alan Bernheimer

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America at War With Itself: Authoritarian Politics in a Free Society

Henry A. Giroux

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Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence

Melvin Goodman

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The Earth Wants You

Reverend Reverend Billy

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The Gilda Stories

Jewelle Gomez

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To Protect and Serve Who? Organizing a Movement to Abolish Police Violence

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

Tim Wise

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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

Roy Scranton

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Shock Treatment: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

Karen Finley

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Pictures of the Gone World

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Pictures of the Gone World

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation

Bill Morgan

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Black Wave

Michelle Tea

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The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica

R. Gordon Wasson

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National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism

Melvin Goodman

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Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012

Lisa Jarnot

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Poems Retrieved

Frank O'Hara

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Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog

Robert Jensen

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Nan Domi: An Initiate's Journey into Haitian Vodou

Mimerose Beaubrun

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Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition

Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery

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Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition

Gertrude Stein

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In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now

Ben Hedin

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Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook

David Meltzer

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The Poetry Deal

Diane Di Prima

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The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine

Henry A. Giroux

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Rad American Women A-Z

Kate Schatz

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Because We Say So

Noam Chomsky

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Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

Henry A. Giroux and Brad Evans

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Thomas Page McBee

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Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

Tim Wise

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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

Todd Miller

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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

Tim Wise

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The Beautifully Worthless

Ali Liebegott

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Spying on Democracy: A Short History of Government/Corporate Collusion in the Technology Age

Heidi Boghosian

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Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga

Daniel O. Fagunwa

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Cha-Ching!

Ali Liebegott

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The End of San Francisco

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings 2001-2007

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Canek Pena-Vargas, and Greg Ruggiero

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Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (City Lights Open Media)

Noam Chomsky

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Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America (City Lights Open Media)

Joanne Griffith, Michelle Alexander, Van Jones, and Vincent Harding

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Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road (City Lights/Sister Spit)

Michelle Tea

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Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism (City Lights Open Media)

Richard D. Wolff and David Barsamian

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The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)

Angela Yvonne Davis and Robin D. G. Kelley

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The Historic Unfulfilled Promise

Howard Zinn and Mathew Rothschild

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Inside/Out: Selected Poems

Marilyn Buck and David Meltzer

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Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media

Rory O'Connor

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I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters

Bayard Rustin, Michael G. Long, and Julian Bond

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Crusade 2.0: The West's Resurgent War on Islam (City Lights Open Media)

John Feffer

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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Open Media)

Tim Wise

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Los Angeles Stories (City Lights Noir)

Ry Cooder

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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

Charles Bukowski and David Stephen Calonne

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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War (City Lights Open Media)

John Gibler

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Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978

Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott

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When I Was a Poet (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

David Meltzer

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Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

Will Potter

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In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jack Hirschman

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The Black History of the White House (City Lights Open Media)

Clarence Lusane

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New World of Indigenous Resistance (City Lights Open Media)

Noam Chomsky, Lois Meyer, and Benjamin Maldonado

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White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg

Peter Conners

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Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition (The Pocket Series)

Allen Ginsberg and Bill Morgan

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Prison/Culture

Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, and Steve Dickison

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The Bomb (City Lights Open Media)

Howard Zinn

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Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt

John Gibler

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The Other Campaign: la otra campana (City Lights Open Media) (Spanish Edition)

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and Luis Hernandez Navarro

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Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)

Tim Wise

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Pomes All Sizes

Jack Kerouac

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Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

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Plutonian Ode: And Other Poems 1977-1980 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

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Roman Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Scattered Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Jack Kerouac

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Island of My Hunger: Cuban Poetry Today

Francisco Moran

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The Language of Saxophones : Selected Poems of Kamau Da\xe1ood

Kamau Da\xe1ood

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The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Jack Kerouac

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Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story

Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould, and Sima Wali

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis (City Lights Open Media)

Frederick Douglass and Angela Yvonne Davis

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Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Tommi Avicolli Mecca

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To Die for the People

Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison (editor), and Elaine Brown

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Unamerican Activities: The Campaign Against the Underground Press

Geoffrey Rips

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Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Yvonne Davis

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Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

Wafaa Bilal and Kari Lydersen

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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

Tom Hayden

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El fuego y la palabra: Una Historia del Movimiento Zapatista

Gloria Muoz Ramrez, Hermann Bellinghausen, and Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement

Gloria Muoz Ramrez, Hermann Bellinghausen, and Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

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The Yage Letters Redux

William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Oliver Harris

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187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971 - 2007

Juan Felipe Herrera

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Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Michael Parenti

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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America

Tiny Gray-garcia and Lisa Gray-garcia

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Targeting Iran (City Lights Open Media)

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian, and Nahid Mozaffari

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Poems of Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, and Susan M. Brown

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Interventions (City Lights Open Media)

Noam Chomsky

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Tales of Ordinary Madness

Charles Bukowski

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Always Astonished: Selected Prose

Fernando Pessoa and Edwin Honig

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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories

Charles Bukowski

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I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody

Sinan Antoon, Elias Khoury, and Rebecca C. Johnson

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Nawal el-Saadawi

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Charles Bukowski

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Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World (City Lights Open Media)

Maureen Webb

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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Howard Zinn

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The First Third

Neal Cassady

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The Tribe

Jean-Michel Mension and Donald Nicholson-Smith

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Bed of Sphinxes : Selected Poems

Philip Lamantia

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Entering Fire

Rikki Ducornet

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Kill the Indian, Save the Man : The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools

Ward Churchill

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Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Frank O'Hara

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Planet News : 1961-1967 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

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The Unknown Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Foye, Andre Breton (contributor), and Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (contributor)

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Mind Breaths : Poems 1972-1977 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

Raymond Borde, Etienne Chaumeton, and Paul Hammond

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The Shadow and its Shadow

Paul Hammond

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Twenty Prose Poems

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

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The Tears of Eros

Georges Bataille

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San Francisco Poems

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Book of Dreams

Jack Kerouac

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The Essential Neruda : Selected Poems

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner, Robert Hass, Stephen Mitchell, Alastair Reid, Forrest Gander, Stephen Kessler, and John Felstiner

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The Heart of Whiteness : Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege

Robert Jensen

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Resistance

Victor Serge

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Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

Peter Lamborn Wilson

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The Political Edge

Chris Carlsson

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Blues and the Poetic Spirit

Paul Garon

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Artaud - Anthology

Antonin Artaud

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Stories of Mr. Keuner

Bertolt Brecht and Martin Chalmers

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Listen!: Early Poems, 1913-1918 (Pocket Poets Series)

Vladimir Mayakovsky and Maria Enzberger

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Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille

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Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 (Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

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Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets)

Allen Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams

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Spinoza, Practical Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze

IN STOCK

Anthology of Black Humor

Andre Breton and Mark Polizzotti

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Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology

Max Blechman

OUT OF PRINT

Companeras: Women, Art, & Social Change in Latin America

Betty Laduke

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A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present

Ward Churchill

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Globalize Liberation : How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World

David Solnit

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The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond

Michael Parenti

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September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke

Roger Burbach and Ben Clarke

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Free Enterprise

Michelle Cliff

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Perversions of Justice : Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-american Law

Ward Churchill

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Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 (Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

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The Burroughs File

William S. Burroughs

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Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems

Diane Di Prima

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M'Hashish

Mohammed Mrabet

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Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians

Ward Churchill

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Death in Troy

Bilge Karasu and Aron Aji