The Spicebox of Earth and
Let Us Compare Mythologies were the first
books of
poetry published by
Leonard Cohen. This was a long, long time before his
weird,
hoarse gaunt voice enticed us to the gaunt
vision to be
found in his
work.
I have always felt and, somehow, understood, that the true meeting, the true encounter of a person, meant the comparing of mythologies about our particular Spicebox of Earth.