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Let Us Compare Mythologies

Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologiesis Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago 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.

Themes
music
Setting
Canada
Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages
Form
poetry

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