City Lights Pocket Poets
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The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the National Book Award for Poetry
Beginning with “long poem of these States,” The Fall of America is the follow up book to Ginsberg’s Planet News … chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: June 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0872860639
- Language: English
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Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977
$15.95 Add to cartMeditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade.
Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0872860922
- Language: English
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Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960
$13.95 Add to cart“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy.” Many of Ginsberg’s most famous poems.
Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0872860213
- Language: English
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
$23.95 Add to cart“Printer’s ink is the greater explosive.”–Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocke
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0872866793
- Language: English
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Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAnne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to con
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Waldman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863166
- Language: English
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Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
$16.95 Add to cartFrom Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where C?saire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #63
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868702
- Language: English
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Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61
$15.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize
2018 American Book Award Winner
2018 PEN Oakland Award Winner
Winner of the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry
2018 NCIBA Poetry Book of the
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #61
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0872867455
- Language: English
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Howl and Other Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition!
The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & O
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863107
- Language: English
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Scattered Poems
$10.95 Add to cartSpontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including “San Francisco Blues,” the variant texts of “Pull My Daisy” and “American haiku.”
HERE D
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0872860647
- Language: English
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Lunch Poems
$16.95 Read moreExquisite hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the “New York School” of poetry, Frank O’Hara. Published on the 50th anniversary of Lunch Poems.
Lunch Poems, f
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #19
- Author: O’Hara, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0872866173
- Language: English
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Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62
$15.95 Read more2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry – Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance
2022 California Book Award Finalist
Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #62
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868753
- Language: English
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Lunch Poems
$8.95 Add to cartEssential poems by the late New York poet.
Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O’Hara’s freshest an
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: O’Hara, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0872860353
- Language: English
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Howl and Other Poems
$7.95 Add to cartThe landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems
HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 57
- Publish Date: January 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0872860175
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27
$18.95 Read moreExpanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima’s Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her pas
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #27
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868796
- Language: English
