Flowers for Hitler

Flowers for Hitler is Canadian poet and composer Leonard Cohen's third collection of poetry, first published in 1964 by McClelland & Stewart.

[2][3] Cohen's original title, Opium and Hitler, was rejected by the publisher.

[4] Flowers for Hitler contains 95 rhymed and free-verse poems, avant-garde texts, and pictorial elements.

There are few allusions to the Bible in Flowers for Hitler, unlike Cohen's previous books.

[4] Critic Sandra Djwa wrote that Flowers for Hitler "is a movement from a qualified acceptance of the romantic ideal as it is embodied in art ... to the decadent romanticism of a fin de siecle aesthetic in which the ugly replaces the beautiful as the inspiration for art".