Flowers for Hitler
By: Leonard Cohen
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780771024511
Copyright date: 1964
Subjects: Poetry; Canadian poetry; Canadian Poets
Notes: Originally published: 1964.

Poems.

"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.""-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.