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The Flame (Hardcover, Main)
Leonard Cohen; Foreword by Adam Cohen; Edited by Robert Faggen, Alexandra Pleshoyano
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THESE POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS ARE THE LAST WORD FROM THE LATE, GREAT
LEONARD COHEN.
The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and writings, selected and ordered by Cohen in the final months of his life. The book contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker. An enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen's storied literary career, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny.
By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more.
A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary
musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard CohenBefore Leonard Cohen's
worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards,
and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The
Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like "Hallelujah," "Suzanne,"
and "Famous Blue Raincoat" first ventured into writing in his early
twenties, and in A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories, readers
will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable
body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The
pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and
including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel,
offer startling insights into Cohen's imagination and creative
process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work,
from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and
profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom,
or transcendence. The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers--one he
later remarked was "probably a better novel" than his celebrated
book The Favourite Game--is a haunting examination of these
elements in tandem, focusing on toxic relationships and the lengths
to which one will go to maintain them, while the fifteen stories,
as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his
characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author
himself. Cohen's work is meditative and surprising, offering
playful, provocative, and penetrating glimpses into the world-weary
lives of his characters, and a window into the early art of a
storytelling master. A Ballet of Lepers, vivid in its detail,
unsparing in its gaze, reveals the great artist and visceral genius
as never seen before.
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career,
including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy',
'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and
searingly memorable poems from many collections including Flowers
for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady's Man.
Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the
sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence
and live-wire emotional immediacy.
Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of
poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three
decades ago. Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came
to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. Book of Longing,
his new collection of poetry, was twenty years in the making and
written in Montreal, Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy.
Enhanced by Cohen's own playful and provocative illustrations,
these poems show the full range of one of the most influential and
enigmatic writers of his generation. 'Awe-inspiring. . . Cohen
emerges as the wry, sensual mystic his champions have always known
he was' Sunday Telegraph 'Exceptional. Clear yet steamy, cosmic yet
private, both playful and profound. . . as soulful a credo as he
has ever put on paper' New York Times 'Playful, colourful, erotic.
. . brilliant and sharp as flint' Big Issue 'Dazzling' Sunday
Herald 'The best bring an ironic, world-weary sensibility to bear
on themes of ageing, sex, sensuality and spirituality' Financial
Times 'A fine book of poems' Time Out 'Cohen maps this wasteland of
the heart with humour, and sometimes anger' Independent Cohen's
career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare
Mythologies, and he has since published nine books of poems, and
has made numerous internationally successful recordings. In a
career spanning fifty years, Leonard Cohen has become one of the
western world's most popular and innovative creative artists.
"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance""Something was Missing in our
Culture, and Here It Is""Liberties is THE place to be. Change
starts in the mind." Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics,
is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and
political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features
serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by
significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry;
and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to
inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of
today's culture and politics. This issue of Liberties includes: new
work from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa; drawings by
Leonard Cohen published for the first time; Mamtimin Ala's essay on
China's genocide of the Uyghurs; Jaroslaw Anders' analysis of the
crisis in Belarus; Cass R. Sunstein on liberalism inebriated;
Richard Thompson Ford on what slavery does and does not explain;
Sean Wilentz on the historical strategy of the Republican Party;
Benjamin Moser writes about translation as a form of tourism in
literary life; Jonathan Zimmerman on the scandal of college
teaching; Mark Lilla on cults of innocence and their victims; Helen
Vendler on Adrienne Rich; Holly Brewer on race and enlightenment;
David Thomson asks, What shall we watch now?; Celeste Marcus
(managing editor) on the legend of Alice Neel; Leon Wieseltier
(editor) on Zionism's beautiful stubbornness of survival; and new
poetry from Ange Mlinko and Shaul Tchernikhovsky, translated by
Robert Alter.
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Various Artists - Stars of Classical (CD)
Various Artists, Emmerich Kalman/Franz Lehar/Johann Strauss II, Francesco Sartori, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leonard Cohen, …
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An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent
of Leonard Cohen. Before the celebrated late-career world tours,
before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before
'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat',
the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for
literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that
the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was
present from the very beginning. Written between 1956 in Montreal,
just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961,
when he'd settled on Greece's Hydra island, the pieces in this
collection offer startling insight into Cohen's imagination and
creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later
work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire to longing,
whether for love, family, freedom or transcendence. The titular
novel, A Ballet of Lepers - one he later remarked was 'probably a
better novel' than his celebrated book The Favourite Game - is a
haunting examination of these elements, while the fifteen stories,
as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his
characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author
himself. Meditative, surprising, playful and provocative, A Ballet
of Lepers is vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, and
reveals the great artist and visceral genius like never before.
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this
uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle,
and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic
saint. Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed -
characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a
nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and
mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk
virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and
lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at the
novel's start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature
of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit
flashbacks. The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's
classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed
literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his
timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion. Not just an
extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit
examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.
From one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently
daring artists of our time comes this eagerly awaited new
collection of poems, following Cohens highly acclaimed 1984 title
"Book of Mercy."
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by
singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of
Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family.
‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to
reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.’
Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with
the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa
and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz,
Breavman's tale is a distant echo of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and
‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ – injected with 1960s
aesthetics and Cohen’s unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a
young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and
love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning
realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the
grotesque. Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen’s
voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into
adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our
guides.
'God is Alive, Magic is Afoot' is a poem/mantra from Leonard
Cohen's legendary novel 'Beautiful Losers'. It is a flash of
optimism, and remains one of his most accessible pieces of writing.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt
and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in
tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these
verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard
Cohen is revered as one of the greatest writers, performers, and
most consistently daring artists of the last hundred years.
Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us
Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of
print, it is now available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago
as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry
Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by
Canadian artist Freda Guttman.
A poetry anthology to aid the work of MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT
Including 2012 T S Eliot Prize Winner SHARON OLDS Nobel Prize in
Literature winner SEAMUS HEANEY Supporters BOB DYLAN, LEONARD COHEN
and JONI MITCHELL Grammy Award winning Renaissance Woman MAYA
ANGELOU 2010 T S Eliot shortlisted poet PASCALE PETIT Cholmondeley
Award winners PENELOPE SHUTTLE and MONIZA ALVI World renowned poet
and performer BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH Classic poets including Betjeman,
Dylan Thomas, Yeats, Wordsworth, Byron, Pushkin, Housman, Browning,
Keats, Clare, Donne and many more... PLUS established and new poets
who believe in the cause... Heart Shoots has 'love' as the general
theme of the majority of poems. It has been compiled by us to reach
all members of the buying public, from those who are familiar with
the best poets writing today, the millions of fans that follow Bob
Dylan et al, and those millions of people who support the work of
Macmillan and want to read accessible poetry that they can relate
to.
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The Flame (Paperback, Main)
Leonard Cohen; Foreword by Adam Cohen; Edited by Robert Faggen, Alexandra Pleshoyano
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG
READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is the final work from Leonard
Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations
and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems,
excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn
self-portraits, The Flame offers an intimate look inside the life
and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply
and passionately, with wit and panache, this collection is a
valedictory work.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us
Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry.
It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates
Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man. An
unprecedented debut published to immediate acclaim, new generations
of readers will now rediscover not only the early work of one of
our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly with
relevance today.
Leonard Cohen was right in the middle of a career peak when he
released 1973's LIVE SONGS, which came in between two titanic
studio albums, SONGS OF LOVE & HATE and NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD
CEREMONY. But since much of the album was recorded during a 1970
tour, it consists mostly of songs from his second album, SONGS FROM
A ROOM. An ensemble including Charlie Daniels on fiddle and
Jennifer Warnes on backing vocals lends a good amount of oomph to
these tunes, but previously unreleased songs like "Queen Victoria"
and "Please Don't Pass Me By" (which never made it onto a studio
album) are among the most visceral and striking. Cohen would go on
to release three more live albums over the years, but this is
probably the best.
Documentary about Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. The
programme contains a collection of interviews with the artist from
the start of his career in the 1970s through to the present day in
addition to rare performance footage.
Documentary that examines the career of acclaimed Canadian musician
Leonard Cohen between 1978 and 2008. Cohen, whose overall career as
a musician stretches to almost half a century, experimented with a
range of different styles in the period and didn't tour for the
final 15 years. With the aid of archive performance and interview
footage, the programme aims to shed new light on a talented but
often enigmatic figure.
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