SIX MONTREAL POETS (LEONARD COHEN) - 1957 FOLKWAYS 1st pr MONO + BOOK
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Description
Artist(s) : Leonard Cohen et al
Title : ''Six Montreal Poets''
Label : Folkways FL 9805
Country : USA
LP : VG+ (light hairlines with age spots, also 2 lines from paper -visual graded)
Cover : Exc (very clean almost NM)
Extremely rare and hard to find LP featuring Leonard Cohen as a poet prior to his music career.
In 1957 Folkways Records released the "Six Montreal Poets" album with A.J.M. Smith, Irving Layton, Louis Dudek, F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein, and Leonard Cohen - all reading their own poetry on the record.
Credits - Produced by Sam Gesser ; Design by Ronald Clyne
The album comes with 8 pages of descriptive notes which includes all poems as on LP.
Leonard Cohen reads the following poems (recorded in 1957):
For Wilf And His House (1955), Beside The Shepherd (1956),
Poem (1955), Lovers (1955), The Sparrows (1955),
Warning (1956), Les Vieus (1954), Elegy (1955).
All poems are from "Let Us Compare Mythologies"
A.J.M. Smith:
Like an Old Proud King in a Parable, A Hyacinth for Edith, Noctambule, The Plot Against Proteus, Business as Usual, Fear as Normal, The Archer, Sonnet, My Death.
Irving Layton:
The Birth of Tragedy, The Fertile Muck, Maxie, The Bull Calf, The Cold Green Element, The Improved Binoculars.
F.R. Scott:
Surfaces, Lakeshore, Laurentian Shield, The Bird, Caring, Bonne Entente, Memory, Will to Win, Conflict.
Louis Dudek:
Poem 19 from Europe, Poem 95 from Europe, To an Unknown in a Restaurant, A Cracker Jack, The Pomegranate, Line and Form.
A.M. Klein:
Psalm XXII, Plumaged Proxy, The Rocking Chair, Political Meeting,For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu, Montreal.
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