Flowers for Hitler

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A NOTE ON THE TITLE
A
while ago
this book would
have been called
SUNSHINE FOR NAPOLEON
and earlier still it
would have been
called
WALLS FOR GENGHIS KHAN

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Flowers for Hitler (1964) represents the first stage of Cohen's continued attempt to undercut his own reputation, to deny his own lyricism. Its harsh and ugly satiric poems portray a nightmare world, which is still defined by the image of the concentration camp. -- Stephen Scobie