Let Us Compare Mythologies

“There is no difference between a poem and a song. Some were songs first and some were poems first and some were simultaneous." -Leonard Cohen

Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared at publication as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by Canadian artist Freda Guttman.

This collection features poems such as:

• "The Captain"
• "To the Unknown Woman"
• "For E.G."

Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by Canadian artist Freda Guttman.

"Leonard Cohen is incomparable when it comes to expressing romantic longing." - Terry Gross, Fresh Air

"His commitment to the craft of poetry long predated his song-writing career. The best of his poetry is worth serious consideration. " - Mercator

“A brilliant beginning.” - Queen's Quarterly

"The poems have a sense of timelessness, or of multilayered time. Ancient wrongs are juxtaposed with modern- day atrocities, and archaic language— courtly, biblical, Romantic— with contemporary irony. Leonard employs both the traditional poetic form and prose poetry. Like a twentieth- century troubadour, or a nineteenth- century Romantic, he places his own inner experiences and feelings at the center— often feelings of failure and despair." - Sylvie Simmons