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CITY LIGHTS NEWSLETTER

NEWS FROM CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS
http://www.citylights.com
May 5, 2004

* EVENTS AT THE BOOKSTORE
* RECOMMENDED READS FROM THE STAFF
* BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS
* FORTHCOMING BOOKS FROM CITY LIGHTS
* NEWS ABOUT CITY LIGHTS PUBLICATIONS
* TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, A NEW POEM BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
* CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS





EVENTS AT CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE


http://www.citylights.com/events.html

Sunday, May 9th, 5 pm
Release party for San Francisco State University's Interpretations & Portals
Appearing will be several contributors and the editors of these two
outstanding journals from SFSU's Department of Humanities.

Tuesday, May 11th, 7 pm
Paul Krassner celebrates the release of Magic Mushrooms & Other Highs: From
Toad Slime to Ecstasy, published by Ten Speed Press, edited by Paul Krassner

Thursday, May 13th, 7 pm
A book party celebrating the release of Modern Greek Poetry: An Anthology,
edited by Nanos Valaoritis and Thanasis Maskaleris, published by Talisman
Books

Tuesday, May 18th, 7 pm
Robert Jensen discusses his new work published by City Lights, Citizens of
Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity

Wednesday, May 26th, 7 pm
Clara Nieto discusses her bestseller, Masters of War: Latin American and
U.S. Aggression from the Cuban Revolution through the Clinton Years

See more events at City Lights Bookstore and sign up for weekly email
reminders at: http://www.citylights.com/events.html





RECOMMENDED READS FROM THE CITY LIGHTS STAFF



THE DEW BREAKER
by Edwidge Danticat
A poignant, carefully-written, and engaging novel that beautifully unfolds a
tortured, horrific world.
Hardcover
$22.00
Random House
Picked by Chanté




FOAM OF THE DAZE
by Boris Vian
Finally, one of my favorite French novels back in English! As jaunty as a
ride in a cartoon jalopy, as fresh and light as a cloud of pollen raised by
a randy bumblebee humping a flower, and as painful as the slow, ruinous
decline of your childhood best friend.
$18.00
TamTam Books
Picked by Matt

See more Recommended Reads at http://www.citylights.com/CLREREZ.html




CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE RECENT BESTSELLERS



TOP 10 PAPERBACKS

1. THE ESSENTIAL NERUDA edited by Mark Eisner (City Lights)
2. CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE by Robert Jensen (City Lights)
3. READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
4. 50 THINGS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW edited by Russ Kick (Disinformation
Co.)
5. REEFER MADNESS by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin)
6. CUCKOO by Peter Streckfus (Yale University Press)
7. HOW TO GET STUPID WHITE MEN OUT OF OFFICE by William Upski Wimsatt
(Softskull Press)
8. PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson (Riverhead)
9. ORYX & CRAKE by Margaret Atwood (Random House)
10. THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown & Co.)




TOP 10 HARDCOVERS

1. OJIBWA WARRIOR by Dennis Banks (University of Oklahoma Press)
2. THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL by Mark Bittner (Crown Books)
3. AGAINST ALL ENEMIES by Richard Clarke (Simon & Schuster)
4. AMERICAN SCREAM by Jonah Raskin (University of California Press)
5. HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL by Noam Chomsky (Henry Holt)
6. DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY by Michael Moore (Time Warner)
7. THE CHE HANDBOOK by H. Barrio (St. Martin's Press)
8. THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI by Andrew Greer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
9. THE KNOWN WORLD by Edward Jones (HarperCollins)
10. FREE CULTURE by Lawrence Lessig (Penguin)








FORTHCOMING BOOKS FROM CITY LIGHTS



GLOBALIZE LIBERATION:
How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
edited by David Solnit
Available June 2004
ISBN 0-87286-420-0
Paperback original, 512pp
150 b&w illustrations
$17.95
$12.57 (online only)
http://www.citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#globalize_liberation

A post-9/11 look at the new radicalism that has captured the imagination of
activists worldwide

We live in an era of a new radicalism, a worldwide challenge to global
empire that has inspired millions to flood the streets in resistance and to
take action in their own communities. This movement of movements is gaining
momentum, even in the face of post-9/11 repression and war. All over the
world, people are rebelling against the rule of the few who are intent on
concentrating profit and power.

Globalize Liberation weaves together the experiences and insights of
community organizers, direct action movements, and global justice struggles
from North America, Europe, and Latin America. Thirty-three essays provide
food for thought, examples of effective action, and practical tools for
everyone to use. This book, the product of uprisings, hard-lived victories,
and visions for the future, was created to articulate, popularize, and
deepen the rebellious spirit of the new radicalism.

Contributors include: Betita Martínez, Starhawk, Walden Bello, Naomi Klein,
Midnight Notes Collective, Patrick Reinsborough, Van Jones, and more.

David Solnit was a key organizer of the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. A
twenty-year veteran of global justice, anti-war, environmental justice, and
community struggles, he has worked to popularize the use of direct democracy
to build mass movements in the United States and globally. He is a founder
of Art and Revolution, which has helped popularize the use of art, street
theater and giant puppets as an innovative form of resistance in numerous
movements across North America, and from Israel and Palestine to Argentina.
He is a trainer in grassroots organizing, direct-action strategy, and street
theater. He lives and works as a carpenter in Oakland, California.






NEWS ABOUT CITY LIGHTS PUBLICATIONS



INGRID CAVEN: A NOVEL
by Jean-Jacques Schuhl
Translated from the French by Michael Pye
Available July 2004
ISBN 0-87286-427-8
Paperback original, 250 pp
$12.95
$9.07 (online only)
http://www.citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#ingrid

INGRID CAVEN to be reviewed in The Nation this summer and an interview with
Jean-Jacques Schuhl will be featured in the summer issue of Bookforum.

"The novel...could be read as an intimate, literary dialogue between France
and Germany. (Caven is German and Schuhl is French and Jewish.) That such a
dialogue can be embodied in a single female character as seen through the
eyes of her lover is a testament to Schuhl's originality and narrative
imagination." - Speakeasy



Just released and available now, celebrating the centennial of Pablo Neruda'
s birth!
THE ESSENTIAL NERUDA:
Selected Poems
Edited by Mark Eisner
ISBN 0-87286-428-6
Paperback original, 222 pp
$16.95
$11.87 online only!
http://www.citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#essential
Mark Eisner is currently on a nationwide tour. See
http://www.citylights.com/pub/itin.eisner.html

Listed by USA Today in a feature on National Poetry Month, named as part of
the celebration marking what would have been Pablo Neruda's 100th birthday,
The Essential Neruda was one of three must-have new poetry titles.

" ...The Essential Neruda will prove to be, for most readers, the best
introduction to Neruda available in English. In fact, I can think of few
other books that have given me so much delight so easily. At only 234 pages
(bilingual), it somehow manages to convey the fullness of Neruda's poetic
arc: Reading it is like reading the autobiography of a poetic sensibility
(granted, the abridged version)." - The Austin Chronicle

"Selling Well in Local Independent Bookstores: A group of distinguished
poets, scholars and translators, including Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell,
have collaborated to fashion this new translation of 50 poems drawn from the
vast canon of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, all to mark the centenary of his
birth on July 12." -The Washington Post

DOCUMENTARY NERUDA! PRESENTE! TO TOUR WORLDWIDE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS
BOOK; PREMIERES IN NEW YORK CITY & SAN FRANCISCO. See a schedule of upcoming
readings and events: http://www.citylights.com/pub/itin.eisner.html





CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE:
The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity
by Robert Jensen
ISBN: 0-87286-432-4
$11.95
$8.37 online only!
http://www.citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#citizens
Robert Jensen is currently on a nationwide tour. See
http://www.citylights.com/pub/itin.jensen.html for reading places and times.

" . . . handbook for people who are looking for new ways to engage fully in
the democratic process of citizenship . . . Jensen's use of personal
anecdotes, analogies and in-your-face common sense makes the reading easy
and his request sound doable, even logical." - Publishers Weekly, March 15,
2004

"...a small, thoughtful, eminently accessible book, CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE
is intended to be a citizen's manual of sorts, an encouragement to a
thinking, effective electorate. Jensen's message is meant to be one of
optimism, an antidote to the resignation and despair about the future of
democracy in the face of increasingly mindless group-think on the part of
the electorate and unresponsive policy-making on the part of their elected
leaders. The conclusion of this slim volume is to urge the reader, whether
or not s/he shares Jensen's political views, to get up and get actively
engaged, to reclaim the rights of a citizen of this country, and of the
world, in a decisive election year." - Chapel Hill News





TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, A NEW POEM BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI



The first fine dawn of life on earth
The first light of the first morning
The first evening star
The first man on the moon seen from afar
The first voyage of Ulysses westward
The first fence on the last frontier
The first tick of the atomic clock of fear
The first Home Sweet Home so dear
The sweet smell of honeysuckle at midnight
The first free black man free of fright
The sweet taste of freedom
The first good orgasm
The first Noble Savage
The first Pale Face settler on the first frontier
The last Armenian and the last Ojibway in Fresno
The first ball park hotdog with mustard
The first home run in Yankee Stadium
The first song of love and forty cries of despair
The first pure woman passing fair
The sweet smell of success
The first erection and the first Resurrection
The first darling buds of May
The last covered wagon through the Donner Pass
The first green sprouts of new grass
The last cry of Mark Twain! on the Mississippi
The First and Last Chance Saloon
The ghostly galleon of the half-moon
The first cry of pure joy in morning light
The distant howl of trains lost in book of night
The first morning after the night before thinking
The last new moon sinking
The last of the Mohicans and the last buffalo
The last sweet chariot swinging low
The first hippie heading for the hills
The last bohemian in a beret
The last beatnik in North Beach with something to say
The last true love to come your way
The last Wobbly and the last Catholic Anarchist
The last paranoid Lefty
The last Nazi
The first bought vote in the first election
The last hand caught in the last cookie jar
The last cowboy on the last frontier
The last bald eagle with nothing to fear
The last buffalo head nickel
The last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The last Mom and Pop grocery
The last firefly flickerng in the night

The first plane to hit the first Twin Tower
The last plane to hit the last Twin Tower
The only plane to ever hit the Pentagon
The birth of a vast national paranoia
The beginning of the Third World War
(the War Against the Third World)

The first trip abroad by an ignorant president
The last free-running river
The last gas and oil on earth
The last general strike
The last Fidelista the last Sandinista the last Zapatista
The last political prisoner
The last virgin and the last of the champagne
The last train to leave the station
The last and only great nation
The last Great Depression
The last will & testament
The last welfare check for rent
The end of the old New Deal
The new Committee on Unamerican Activities
The last politician with honest proclivities
The last independent newspaper
printing the news and raising hell
The last word and the last laugh and the Last Hurrah
The last picture show and the last waltz
The last Unknown Soldier
The last innocent American
The last Ugly American
The last Great Lover and the last New Yorker
The last home-fries with ketchup-to-go
The last train home at midnight
The last syllable of recorded time
The last long careless rapture
The last independent bookstore with its own mind
The last best hope of mankind
The lost chord and the lost leader
The last drop of likker
The cup that runneth over quicker
The last time I saw Paris Texas
The last peace treaty and the Last Supper
The first sweet signs of spring
The first sweet bird of youth
The first baby tooth and the last wisdom tooth
The last honest election
The last freedom of information
The last free Internet
The last free speech radio
The last unbought television network
The last homespun politician
The last Jeffersonian
The last Luddite in Berkeley
The last Bottom Line and the last of Social Security
The first fine evening calm and free
The beach at sunset with reclining nudes
the lovers wrapped in each other
The last meeting of the Board
The last gay sailor to come aboard
The first White Paper written in blood
The last terrorist born of hate and poverty
The last citizen who bothered to vote
The first President picked by a Supreme Court
The end of the Time of Useful Consciousness
The unfinished flag of the United States
The ocean's long withdrawing roar

The birth of a nation of sheep
The deep deep sleep of the booboisie
The underground wave of feel-good fascism
The uneasy rule of the super-rich
The total triumph of imperial America
The final proof of our Manifest Destiny
The first loud cry of America über alles
Echoing in freedom's alleys
The last lament for lost democracy
The total triumph of
totalitarian plutocracy

CODA

Cut down cut down cut down
Cut down the grassroots
Cut down those too wild weeds
in our great agri-fields and golf courses
Cut down cut down those wild sprouts
Cut down cut down those rank weeds
Pull down your vanity, man, pull down
the too wild buds the too wild shoots
Cut down the wild unruly vines & voices
the hardy volunteers and pioneers
Cut down cut down the alien corn
Cut down the crazy introverts
Tongue-tied lovers of the subjective
Cut down cut down the wild ones the wild spirits
The desert rats and monkey wrenchers
Easy riders and midnight cowboys in narco nirvanas
Cut down the wild alienated loners
fiddling with their moustaches
plotting revolution in hopeless cellars
Cut down cut down all those freaks and free thinkers
Wild-eyed poets with wandering minds
Soapbox agitators and curbstone philosophers
Far out weirdos and rappers
Stoned-out visionaries and peace-niks
Exiles in their own land!
O melting pot America!


Lawrence Ferlinghetti's latest book of poems, AMERICUS, BOOK I, is now
available from City Lights. For more information on Ferlingheitti, see his
website at http://www.citylights.com/CLlf.html





CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS



ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE (http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com) is a bi-weekly, online
magazine that features underground poetry, prose, artwork & comics.
Submissions are welcome year-round. Response time usually ranges anywhere
between 2 days to 3 weeks. Complete guidelines are available at
http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com <http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/> or
contact the editor at brian at wentland.com.




LA REATA is a new quarterly magazine based in London. Currently in it's
second (Summer) issue La Reata is a simple yet beautifully produced
no-frills magazine which concentrates on short fiction and poetry. Fiction
(3000 words or less) and poetry (6 poems or less) can be submitted by post
along with SASE with sufficient return postage. Or by email to
panchromatic at msn.com , La Reata, 19 Richmond House, Park Village East,
London NW1 3SX, United Kingdom
ISSN 1743-3487
Replies within one month




INSTANT CITY is accepting submissions of short fiction and nonfiction (10
pages or less) set in San Francisco. Subjects spanning history, culture,
politics, novel excerpts or short stories (no poetry please). For more
information email gravity at instantcity.org.



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