THE ENERGY OF SLAVES
Title
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The Energy Of Slaves
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Year published
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1972
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Publisher
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McClelland And Stewart Ltd., Toronto
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Pages
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127
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Notes
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ISBN Hardback 0-7710-2204-2
ISBN Paperback 0-7710-2203-4
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Summary
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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.
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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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