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The Spice-Box of Earth, issued in 1961, was Canadian poet (and future folk music star) Leonard Cohen's second collection of poetry. The book brought the young poet (just 27 years old) a measure of early literary acclaim. Many poems were 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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