As in Let us compare mythologies, in this collection Cohen also alternates Garcia Lorca's style inspired poems - assemblies of images, sounds and loosely connected symbols - and other compositions that can be more clearly paraphrased and literally interpreted, with an explicit message. Those of the second type might be slightly more numerous, while the style of the first batch is even more mature and inspiring than in the previous book.
The themes are most often love (past and present, longed and lost), sex (quite graphical at times) and Judaism. The latter one is predominantly of the East-European or biblical - rather than American/Israeli - type.
Once again these poems prove the width of the range of artistic talent that Cohen already possessed long before acquiring fame through his career as a singer and song writer.
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