Like a Dog is poignant, funny and stark, a story about the rudderless freedom and beauty of a low-stakes life, and how love can survive in a deeply wounded family. Paloma is a skateboarder in her earl
Paul Madonna’s popular comic, ?All Over Coffee” had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-z
When Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert, she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in
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
“A true poet of modern classic culture in mid-twentieth century U.S.A.” —Allen Ginsberg“At their best the poems have an intensely oral, I would like to call it glossolalic, fre
A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States."Penelope Rosemont has given us, better than anyone else in the English langu
Poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist, Abdellatif Laabi is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Born in Fez, Morocco in 1942, he founded the jour
"Eighty drawings from life in black and white, and in color, nudes in love or strife, some "disastered by life," some with incisive words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghe
In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris?and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matricul
"Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his no
The much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde."The tesseraic language of Tongo Eisen Martin's Heaven Is All Goodbyes br
This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selectio
"Uncompromising, disturbing . . . Abu-Jamal's voice has the clarity and candor of a man whose impending death emboldens him to say what is on his mind without fear of consequence."--The Boston Globe"A
