- The Spice-Box of Earth
"The Spice-Box of Earth" is Canadian
poet andsongwriter Leonard Cohen 's second collection of poetry. It was first published in 1961 byMcClelland and Stewart . The book brought the then 27 year-old poet a measure of early literary acclaim. Many poems have been anthologized in Canadian school textbooks.Following "The Spice-Box of Earth", Cohen retreated for several years to the treeless Argolic island of Hydra in
Greece , where he began work on the far more angular and abrasive poems collected in "Flowers for Hitler " in 1964.Cohen would record his own music for the first time in 1967.
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