Leonard Cohen: Let Us Compare Mythologies, Gebunden

Kurzbeschreibung

In honor of the 50th anniversary of its original publication, Ecco presents a facsimile edition of Leonard Cohens first collection of poetry, LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES.

Beschreibung

Published in 1956 when Leonard Cohen was twenty-two, LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES is his remarkable first book, and it has long been out of print. Now with Eccos 50th anniversary facsimile edition, these early poems are available to collectors of Leonard Cohens work as well as to new generations of readers exactly as they appeared in the original 400 copies of the book. They will discover here all the passion and accomplishment that have marked Cohens phenomenal creative career. These Heroics If I had a shining head and people turned to stare at me in the streetcars; and I could stretch my body through the bright water and keep abreast of fish and water snakes; if I could ruin my feathersin flight before the sun; do you think that I would remain in this room, reciting poems to you, and making outrageous dreams with the smallest movements of your mouth?

Klappentext

"There is no difference between a poem and a song. Some were songs first and some were poems first and some were simultaneous." -Leonard Cohen

Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared at publication as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by Canadian artist Freda Guttman.

This collection features poems such as:

• "The Captain"
• "To the Unknown Woman"
• "For E. G."