Let Us Compare Mythologies

by Leonard Cohen Narrated by Johnathan McClain

Overview

Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

Editorial Reviews

When Leonard Cohen's Let Us Compare Mythologies was first published in 1956, its author was a 22-year-old undergraduate at McGill University. Released in an edition of just a few hundred copies, the hardcover soon disappeared from bookstore shelves and into collectors' libraries. Now, more than 50 years later, Ecco has re-released this landmark volume in a facsimile of the original edition. Cohen's first book of poems holds interest both for its intrinsic work and as a field of emerging themes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169868241
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	10/23/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged

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POEM

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumours on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

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