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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent selection of poetry from Cohen's early books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As great a collection of poems, as I've read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In high school I generally avoided the popular books.  At that time they included such authors as Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Moore, William Burroughs and the like.  Similarly, I disdained the Beatles, preferring the Kinks.  Leonard Cohen should have been on the list but he slipped through b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20662977">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just look at the titles of the books in this collection- it makes my heart melt:  &quot;Let Us Compare Mythologies&quot;- I think of this whenever I meet someone special.  &quot;The Spice-Box of Earth&quot;- The aromatic smells from deep within a needed rest.  &quot;Flowers for Hitler&quot;- Destruc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72343986">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Found this for 8 euros at a second hand bookshop! It's 40 years old and pretty torn but has a really fancy '60s style cover, that Goodreads unfortunately doesn't show, of a black and white close-up picture of an ear, with a torn piece of paper, made out in red, placed as to resemble the point of a k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62220445">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend of mine used to have a copy of Cohen's poetry, and then fell into paranoid-schizophrenia before I could borrow it.  Then yesterday, I found a copy of this for only $5!  I had to have it - and I really like his style -- at the very least, it makes me feel a little more comfortable about my o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58212160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought and listened to a Leonard Cohen The Best of LP over and over during one spring break. All his songs struck me as poetry set to music, then I found out that he wrote poetry! Much like his early songs sans music.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[hearbreaking, no matter where I turn]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the book that introduced me to the poetry of Leonard Cohen. Every time I walk into a bookstore I look in the poetry section to see if there is something else i get from him. I ask people all the time to reccomend another poet like him and am told &quot;There is no one else like Leonard Cohe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26230461">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My ex-boyfriend bought me this in a little used bookshop in Minneapolis because he knew I love Leonard Cohen. My copy looks just as yellow and battered as the cover shown here and has many dog-eared folded pages where my favorites of his poems live. Because of that night, I always associate it with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19188719">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Deze (versleten) bundel zal ik altijd blijven koesteren  omdat hij mij vergezelde op een vroege vakantie in Engeland.<br/>Mooi stevige geëngageerde gedichten van de jonge Leonard Cohen. Met de beroemde tekst &quot;Suzanne takes you down&quot; uit de bundel Parasites of Heaven.<br/>En wat ik helem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35787413">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would like to inform the management that the drinks are watered<br/>And the hatcheck girl has syphilis<br/>And the band is comprised of former SS monsters<br/><br/>However since it is new years eve and I have lip cancer<br/>I will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is definitely out of print. But you can still find it online.  I lent my dad's old copy to someone and had to track it down online because I love it so much and could never live without it. I pick it up every once and while. Never tire of LC]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've learned that I much prefer reading this man's poems to listening to his music.  This is hit or miss, but there are a lot of hits.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this books so much that I made various of his poems into songs.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the best poetry ever spoken/sung.]]></body>
    
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