The Energy of Slaves

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1973. 1st U.S. edition (softcover issue). Softcover. [some rubbing/scuffing to covers, old seller's price blacked out on front endpaper, some creasing to spine but binding fully intact]. Trade PB Poems by the singer-songwriter-poet. "The entire contents of this new collection -- Cohen's first since 'Selected Poems, 1956-1968' -- are published here for the first time, none having appeared separately before. The poet's theme, expressed in his title, is politic: he understands that no matter what occupies the minds of the oppressors of love and freedom, we who are slaves to those two states of being think only of revenge." .