But a storm is blowing from paradise

Bone light

A wild surmise

A slice from the cake made of air

a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture—with all the sexualization that comes with race, gender, and landscape. From front to back the book is wound thr...

Goldsmith market

New Romanian Poetry.

Approaching you in english

A broad selection from the Israeli poet's seven volumes of Hebrew writing.

Advice for lovers

If Philip Sydney had been a third-gender queer poet, he might have written the highly erotic Advice for Lovers.

Driftwood

An experience of exile; a personal epic.

The available world

A meditation on information-overload and an elegy for the worlds we live in--digital, analog, and real.

Re: f (gesture)

The proving grounds

All that's left

Poems for social justice by San Francisco's poet laureate, including his autobiographical inaugural address.

I'll tell what i saw

Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.

Where shadows will

First volume of new series, City Lights Spotlight: selected poems by a major avant-garde woman poet.

Trance archive

Like a chance encounter between Einstein and Breton, Trance Archive embraces philosophy, science, and surrealism.

A roll of the dice

A contemporary and authentically designed translation of one of Stéphane Mallarmé's most famous poems.

Last call: poems on alcoholism, addiction, & deliv

Groundbreaking anthology of poetry on substance abuse and recovery.

The chinese written character as a medium for poetry

This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George Kennedy of Yale, who called it "a small mass of c...

The earth is not flat

Last mojito, the

Larenopfer

Lamp of the body

Glad and sorry seasons

The winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award explores the extremes of joy and sorrow in a formally diverse collection.

A measure's hush

A life above water

Self-portrait without a bicycle

These poems stitch loss to memory, to colours and smells, to tastes of past and present, canvas and ink.

Your father on the train of ghosts

A year of epistolary writing culminating in one of the most extensive collaboration books in the history of American poetry.

Beautiful wall

Set in the desert Southwest, Beautiful Wall straddles current realities of immigration and border violence, and a beautiful, familial past.

Six

Why SIX? Because the collection is composed of six poems. And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles. And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world—honeycombs, for instance—derive strength fro...

Bestiary

The spoils

Deeply lyric meditations on power, ecology, and political engagement.Beginning with the delivery of a diplomatic soccer ball to Henry Kissinger and culminating in a transformative road trip through the Deep South, these three poem cycles navigate the contradictions of modern life and morality. Fr...

Lucy

The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.

Exceptions and melancholies

Exhilarating, dangerous new poems and a generous selection of previous work.

Thousand times broken

Three never-before-translated books from Henri Michaux from the period of his mescaline experimentation, with drawings by the author and Matta.

Horror vacui

Innovative debut collection mixing surrealism, autobiography, and elegy.

Equipoise

A book of poems that reads like a two week vacation at the shore.

City lights pocket poets anthology

A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

The other side of the postcard

San Franciscans portray the unvarnished life of the city not seen in postcards and travelogues.

C. p. cavafy

C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in mo...

Lineas conectadas

Two-volume bilingual anthology of Mexican and American Poets, produced in partnership between NEA/Mexican government

What we ask of flesh

Through biblical re-tellings, narratives, and lyric poems, this young African-American poet examines and heals wounds of flesh and spirit.

To keep love blurry

Inspired by Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones as a son becomes a husband and father.

The reindeer camps

Three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Sutter makes ballads, sonnets, and free verse sing with a Midwestern accent.

The folding star

U.S. debut poetry collection by one of Poland's most acclaimed and award-winning younger poets.

The keys to the jail

This highly anticipated second collection boldly addresses female anger, reaching beyond traditional roles for a new place in the world.

The football corporations

Reading Heyen's uncompromising lyrics you'll be struck with his spikes as they flash upward into your groin, heart, and head.

Parallel lives

Michael Lind's poems repay the kind of attention we bring to reading the classics.

Doubled shadows

The first collection of the avant-garde Chinese poet Ouyang Jianghe in an English translation.

Pictures of the gone world

The volume that launched City Lights' iconic Pocket Poets Series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first collection of poems, in an anniversary edition.

A phone call from dalian

The first major selection of the mainland Chinese poet in an English translation.