#city lights books

[davidhudson]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021.

#lawrence ferlinghetti #poetry #literature #city lights books #books #san francisco

[garadinervi]

Mosab Abu-Toha, Displaced (In memory of Edward Said), in Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 2022 (ebook here)

Displaced In memory of Edward Said I am neither in nor out. I am in between. I am not part of anything. I am a shadow of something. At best, I am a thing that does not really exist. I am weightless, a speck of time in Gaza. But I will remain where I am.

#graphic design #poetry #book #mosab abu toha #edward w. said #edward said #city lights books #2020s

[factorygroupie]

City Lights Bookstore

#city lights books #beatnik #the beat generation #poetry #literature #allen ginsberg #jack kerouac #lawrence ferlinghetti

[lisamarie-vee]

#roland topor #panic #illustration #book cover #b&w #city lights books #1960s

[sheshallfromtimetotime]

City Lights is offering a free ebook download of Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha's book, Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear. I just finished reading it and it's very good. You should probably read it, too.

#poetry #Mosab Abu Toha #Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear #Palestine #City Lights Books

[lascitasdelashoras]

Brady Harris - City Lights Books, San Francisco

#brady harris #san francisco #city lights books #librerías #libros

[maa-pix2]

Free the Press City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco August 2023

#bookstores #free press #city lights books #original phography #photographers on tumblr

[uwmspeccoll]

On this date, October 3 in 1957, the California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsburg was not obscene. High in the pantheon of American literature and an icon of the Beat Generation, Ginsburg started working on Howl in 1954. It was first published in 1956 by Beat poet and San Francisco bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti through his City Lights Books imprint. Containing many references to sex and drugs, the publication was seized, deemed obscene, and Ferlinghetti and his bookstore manager Shig Murao were arrested and brought to trial. The trial was widely publicized, and Ferlinghetti won the case with the help of the ACLU, with California State Superior Court Judge Clayton Horn declaring that the poem was of "redeeming social importance."

Shown here are the title page to the 8th 1959 printing of the City Lights 1st edition; the title page, signed by Ginsburg, and opening lines from the 1971 Grabhorn-Hoyem limited-edition printing of 275 copies on handmade paper; and the cover for the 2010 graphic novel version with illustrations by American graphic artist Eric Drooker, published by Harper Perennial, which were originally created as animation for the 2010 movie Howl. The image of Ginsburg working on the Howl manuscript in 1955 is from Drooker’s graphic novel.

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#Milestone Monday #milestones #Howl #Howl and Other Poems #City Lights Books #Lawrence Ferlinghetti #Shig Murao #Grabhorn-Hoyem #Robert Grabhorn #Andrew Hoyem #Eric Drooker #graphic novels #Harper Perennial #obscenity trials #Beat poetry #Beat Generation

[ashtrayfloors]

and the gray Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye— corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sun- rays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb, leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear, Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

—Allen Ginsberg, from "Sunflower Sutra" (Howl & Other Poems, City Lights Books, 1956)

#quotations #poetry #typography #allen ginsberg #howl and other poems #the beat generation #city lights books #sunflower sutra #sunflower o my soul #favorite poems ever

[michaelwarr-creativework]

Chun Yu and I read a few of our Two Languages / One Community poems in Chinese and English to close the 70th Anniversary of City Lights Bookstore on Sunday, August 20th, in Jack Kerouac Alley. The list of stellar poets and musicians follows below.

From City Lights:

Thank you to all the poets and attendees who turned out to help us celebrate our 70th anniversary with a live poetry reading in Kerouac Alley!

This star-studded event featured readings by Micah Ballard, Chris Carosi, Garrett Caples, Neeli Cherkovski, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Sophia Dahlin, Tiff Dressen, Nadia Elbgal, Agneta Falk Hirschman, erica lewis, Randall Mann, Alexandra Mattraw, Alejandro Murguía, Achy Obejas, Julien Poirier, Sam Sax, Janaka Stucky, Tate Swindell, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Preeti Vangani, Michael Warr, and Chun Yu.

City Lights is celebrating our 70th anniversary all year long with historic talks, poetry readings, online panels and discussions, and much more!

Details: https://citylights.com/city-lights-70th-anniversary.../

#citylights #chun yu #two languages/one community #city lights books #michael warr

[nikswonderland]

beauty in the midday gloom of paris

#moodboard #aes #aesthetic #light academia #paris #academia #cottage aesthetic #romanticism #chaotic academia #food #warmcore #aesthetic moodboard #classic academia #book aesthetic #books #city life #dark academia #cottagecore #cozycore

[flowersforfrancis]

#green academia #romanticism #old aesthetic #paris aesthetic #city aesthetic #city academia #academia #chaotic academia #dark academia #books and literature #classic academia #dark romantica #aesthetic #ramblings #light academia #light academism #summer aesthetic #spring aesthetic #winter aesthetic #academia aesthetic #vintage academia #vintage aesthetic #romantic academia #classic literaturei #literature academia

[garadinervi]

Mosab Abu-Toha, Palestinian Streets, in Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 2022 (ebook here)

Palestinian Streets My city’s streets are nameless. If a Palestinian gets killed by a sniper or a drone, we name the street after them. Children learn their numbers best when they can count how many homes or schools were destroyed, how many mothers and fathers were wounded or thrown into jail. Grownups in Palestine only use their IDs so as not to forget who they are.

#graphic design #poetry #book #mosab abu toha #city lights books #2020s

[california-slow-take]

On an unseasonably warm afternoon in late November of 1966, hundreds of San Francisco State University students jammed shoulder-to-shoulder on the campus commons, enraptured by a handful of English department professors who took turns reading passages from an 825-word book of erotic poetry.

Just a few weeks prior, Lenore Kandel’s “The Love Book” had barely sold any copies. Then it was discovered by San Francisco’s obscenity squad, a police officer duo who raided local shops and entertainment venues to prevent the public from watching or reading about subjects they deemed to be scandalous. Their punitive response, which eventually led to a weekslong obscenity hearing, ultimately caused Kandel’s book to skyrocket in popularity. 

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The last poem in the collection descends into a post-coital haze. “We are transmuting / we are as soft and warm and trembling as a new gold butterfly / the energy indescribable / almost unendurable / at night sometimes I see our bodies glow.” 

Kandel sticking the “F-word” in close proximity to mentions of angels and deities was a step too far, a sacrilegious decision, in the eyes of officers Peter Maloney and Sol Weiner, who confiscated copies of the book from the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street (where Slice House is now) and City Lights bookstore. They subsequently arrested the booksellers on charges of peddling obscene content.

#san francisco #bay area #california #northern california #city lights books #the sixties #poetry #censorship #san francisco state #sfgate #happy valentine's day!

[escapismsworld]

Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, Mexico City built in 1899

#dark academia #light academia #classical #academia aesthetic #escapism #academia #books and libraries #classic literature #books #architecture #old #building #late 1800s #1800s #19th century #interior #gran hotel #mexico city #historical #art nouveau #royal core #cottage core #aesthetics #mood #vibe #tumblr #beautiful

[learnelle]

My favourite spot in Dublin 🖤

#Still absolutely horrified at what happened to this city last week. Those people do not represent us #studyblr #cottagecore #studyspo #langblr #aesthetic #romantic academia #light acadmeia #dark academia #Dublin #Ireland #garden core #books & libraries