Flowers For Hitler

by Leonard Cohen

2021-01-01 13:07:31

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen''s final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen''s cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades. A fresh... Read more
To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen''s final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen''s cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades.

A freshly packaged new series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world''s most adored and celebrated writers.


Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1964, Flowers for Hitler is Leonard Cohen''s third collection of poetry, in which he first experiments with his self-consciously "anti-art" gestures: an attempt, in his own words, to move "from the world of the golden-boy poet into the dung pile of the front-line writer." Haunted by the image of the Nazi concentration camps, the poems are deliberately ugly, tasteless, and confrontational, setting out to destroy the image of Cohen as a sweet romantic poet. Its author was confident in his new direction, telling his publisher at the time that the collection was a masterpiece, and "there [had] never been a book like this, prose or poetry, written in Canada." Less

Book Details

File size8.23 X 5.47 X 0.37 in
Print pages128
PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
Publication date October 2, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780771024511
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (Sep 21, 1934 – Nov 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death and...

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