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Every book that I have gotten from Malarkey has been great to the point I signed up as a Book club member next year. They put out great stuff. Please consider supporting them.

Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.
malarkeybooks.bsky.social Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2d
Been real slow lately but we’re putting a couple books and a tote bag in the mail tomorrow. We can send you books and stuff. We would love actually!
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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🚜 TODAY 10/27 7pm PT, @willpotter.bsky.social joins us in the bookstore to celebrate the publication of his new City Lights title,
LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable

Join us! Or register for the livestream here:
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October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
A unique poem from the special exhibit on Lawrence Ferlinghetti currently on display at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

Out of Chaos
Surges Forth
The Human
Cover page, a poem in three lithographs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Out of Chaos Surges Forth The Human
August 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
“looking like a living question mark into the great gramophone of puzzling existence”

Dog - Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality and the things he sees are bigger than himself and the things he sees are his reality Drunks in doorways Moons on trees The dog trots freely thru the street and the things he sees are smaller than himself Fish on newsprint Ants in holes Chickens in Chinatown windows their heads a block away The dog trots freely in the street and the things he smells smell something like himself The dog trots freely in the street past puddles and babies cats and cigars poolrooms and policemen He doesn’t hate cops He merely has no use for them and he goes past them and past the dead cows hung up whole in front of the San Francisco Meat Market He would rather eat a tender cow than a tough policeman though either might do And he goes past the Romeo Ravioli Factory and past Coit’s Tower and past Congressman Doyle He’s afraid of Coit’s Tower but he’s not afraid of Congressman Doyle although what he hears is very discouraging very depressing very absurd to a sad young dog like himself to a serious dog like himself But he has his own free world to live in His own fleas to eat He will not be muzzled Congressman Doyle is just another fire hydrant to him The dog trots freely in the street and has his own dog’s life to live and to think about and to reflect upon touching and tasting and testing everything investigating everything without benefit of perjury a real realist with a real tale to tell and a real tail to tell it with a real live barking democratic dog engaged in real free enterprise with something to say about ontology something to say about reality and how to see it and how to hear it with his head cocked sideways at streetcorners as if he is just about to have his picture taken for Victor Records listening for His Master’s Voice and looking like a living questionmark into the great gramaphone of puzzling existence with its wondrous hollow horn which always seems just about to spout forth some Victorious answer to everything
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
quotation marks around the word American in the phrase "free born American," suggested an inclusive vision of American identity that was open to anyone who embraced freedom, regardless of race, ethnicity, or place of birth. In this vision immigrants, whether they had naturalized, were Americans too
Cover of biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution Since the union's founding in 1905, radicals in the IWW had crafted their own phrases, symbols, and historical lineages to separate capitalism from democracy and express their program of revolutionary unionism as a quintessentially American endeavor. In the call for recruits to the Missoula free speech fight, quotation marks around the word American in the phrase "free born American," suggested an inclusive vision of American identity that was open to anyone who embraced freedom, regardless of race, ethnicity, or place of birth. In this vision immigrants, whether they had naturalized, were Americans too. By implication, tyrannical, oppressive police, who had made a crime of speaking in the street, were for- eign and un-American. This rhetorical tactic would become increasingly important in radical campaigns for free speech.
July 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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citylightsbooks.bsky.social
"I am seeing almost all of this for the first time,” says Paul Yamazaki, longtime head buyer at City Lights, of the new Legion of Honor museum’s exhibition "Ferlinghetti for San Francisco." It's open now through March 22, 2026!

Read the interview in ALTA Magazine
www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
July 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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City Lights LIVE events!

📢 TODAY 7/28 6pm Mary Anne Trasciatti & Naomi R Williams
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💥 Tues 7/29 6pm @rebeccagrant.bsky.social & Nina Martin
@avidreaderpress.bsky.social
🌲 Thurs 7/31 7pm A Celebration of Lew Welch
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July 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
This is a poem by Nasser Rabah from his collection published By City Lights Booksellers, Gaza: The Poem Said It’s Piece.

Sharing to share the voice.

Hoping the world can open the pathways to feed people and end this hunger.
HUNGER Maybe a tomcat passes by late at night, maybe an acacia meows under the rubble, and it isn't from cold the houses shiver, while hunger howls, it howls in the North. A day passes, and a day and a night, and the neighbors' son doesn't wake up, a day passes, and a day and a night, and dust continues sleeping on the clotheslines. But where did the shell take my neighbors? And I'd be lying when I say: friends, it's alright. Every death is bearable, every thing is bearable, every absence passes, except the hunger of my friends in the North. March 18, 2024
July 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
People are talking about genocide as if it is a rhetorical or moral debate. It is a legal term–a crime defined under international law. South Africa and nine other countries have charged Israel with the crime of genocide at the International Court of Justice. 🧵
July 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It is abominable that the response to a deliberate campaign of starvation in Gaza has been so muted. @ryanlcooper.com calls it out today, and connects the dots: ethnic cleansing is clearly the future for the West Bank, which the Israeli Knesset this week voted to annex.
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
Israel’s Endgame Is Obliterating Palestine
Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.
prospect.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
Court Watch does tremendous and important work.

Court dockets are a treasure trove and they are good at finding important things.

And sometimes it’s just funny, e.g. the dumb luck crank heads who stole a trailer from the FBI equipment yard only to get caught while in the back of it smoking meth.
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July 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
Being bold and recommending after only one chapter because I have faith the rest will be as good. Intro, and a poem from the first chapter written by Kimberly Blaeser (chapter and poem)
Cover of Indigenous Poetics Introduction I believe every poem is ritual: there is a naming, a beginning, a knot or question, then possibly revelation, and then closure, which can be opening, setting the reader, speaker, or singer out and back on a journey. I can hear the tribal speaker in his voice, in whatever mode of performance. And when I trust my voice to go where it needs to be, to find home, it returns to where it belongs, back to the source of its longing. -Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior As poets ourselves, our curiosity is piqued by seeking why Native American writers are drawn to, take up, and embrace the genre of poetry specifically. Though style and form are important to the study of poetry, literary analysis is not what we are interested in performing in this book. What intrigues us is how the creative process, as a practice, has its own capacities, through the "ritual" of creation, to name the "knot or question," and to travel toward "revelation, and then closure, which can be opening." Like Harjo, we trust our voices and the voices of our contributors. We have journeyed with them, and together we are expressing home, in a way our poetic homes, where we see ourselves belonging. What does poetic process uniquely allow us to do? And does our poetic practice express its own type of Indigenous hermeneutics? We acknowledge, first, that the field of Native American poetry is far too much for any one book to take on. The sheer volume of poetry written by American Indians, First Nations, Native American, and Indigenous writers across the Americas is immense. Words join breath-marks, fall into silence. Language stutters and searches. Poems build by an inquiry etched in text, in form, in absences.11 How delicate- dark material of dream. What we become in space: An etch- ing. Stilled vector- of holy. two dimensions A cut-out hunger. Sweet shadow-filled how we bargain against lurid possession. trace- Silhouette our edges in L E T T E R S
July 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
Feeling grateful I took the recommendation of @alinaetc.bsky.social on this absolutely fantastic book. It has been a joy to read.
The Book How to Research Like a Dog with a Snoopy miniature on it to hold down the cover. Research is an impossible profession, avoided by knowing adults and unknown to carefree children: it can only be undertaken by a dog who, forsaking childish pleasures for a serious quest, also turns away from the knowledge and imperatives of the adult world to become more childish than the child. This might even be considered the formula for happiness in Kafka. Contrary to the romantic ideal, happiness consists not in recapturing or returning to youth, an uncorrupted state of innocence and playfulness, but in a demonic childishness unbearable to children. In a somewhat melancholic vein, the dog wonders if this joy will come to him later, after a lifetime of theoretical toil, to brighten his twilight years. But, following the logic of the Kafkian already, one can ask whether this longed-for fulfillment is not already present, pressing the investigations staggeringly for- ward, whether the dog's melancholy science is not also a gay science, to use the term that Nietzsche borrowed from the medieval troubadours, la gaya scienza. If Kafka's humor is a screwball tragedy, Kafka's new science cultivates a joyful despair.
July 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
Congratulations indeed.

And for those who want to read this, I am pointing out that it is available open access.

www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
June 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Congratulations to Claudia Dellacasa, lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Durham alumna, on winning the XXIV International Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies Luca Attanasio, for "Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs".
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
For Summer Solstice, two poems from the collection, Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) by Will Alexander.
A Blaze of Riddles Because the Sun exudes a blaze of riddles there exists a haze of optimal osmosis of protracted helium that bends via its forceless gruel via its maniacal translocation to alien ravines to other planes & possibilities anterior to the sense of chronicle as uninhabited or pure activity On Philosophical Audition As pluperfect poltergeist it retains its aural glistening a grammar alive honed by ophthalmological combining astonishing formation occurs that extends throughout living neural registration via inner audition sired by ethereal humming
June 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ahandleforderek.bsky.social
If I combine last two poetry books I read into a side by side photo, including the fine work by @alinaetc.bsky.social, but use the original Spanish version of the other for its cover art, I can make quite the monumental inside joke for people that know about the inside joke of that shadow.
Two books side by side: El mono gramatico by Octavio Paz and My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu.
June 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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