THE ENERGY OF SLAVES






Title The Energy Of Slaves
Year published 1972
Publisher McClelland And Stewart Ltd., Toronto
Pages 127
Notes ISBN Hardback 0-7710-2204-2
ISBN Paperback 0-7710-2203-4
Summary Another excursion into the anti-art mode, insisting that "The poems don't love us any more," and heading each page with a small black razor blade.  Some of the poems are slight throwaways, but by and large this collection has "aged" better than the more flamboyant Flowers for Hitler: its tone of mordant irony and self-criticism has a purity to it that retains (like a razor blade) its cutting edge. 

Summary written for The Leonard Cohen Files
by professor Stephen Scobie, copyright © 1997.






From the collection of Linda and Dick Straub:
White cover: first UK edition by Jonathan Cape Ltd, London
Green cover: first US edition by The Viking Press, New York


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