Like other artworks regarding Adolf Hitler as a subject, it was somewhat controversial in its day.
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Following The Spice-Box of Earth, Cohen retreated for several years to the treeless Argolic island of Hydra in Greece, where he began work on the more angular, abrasive poems collected in Flowers for Hitler in 1964.