Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition.

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.

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 unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,” writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.”Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,” in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

In the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including the legendary songs "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy," "Bird on a Wire," "Famous Blue Raincoat," "I'm Your Man," and "The Future"; selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems. This volume demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world.In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, 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 his many acclaimed poetry 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.

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged. Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, 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.

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.

Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Now new generations of readers will rediscover not only the early, though no less accomplished and passionate, work of one of our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly with relevance today.

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before 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.

Místico, Profano, Obsceno, Sarcástico, Osado. Estos fueron los calificativos con lo que fue recibido el libro La caja de especias de la tierra en 1961. Desde entonces la gloria literaria de Leonard Cohen (Westmount, Canadá, 1934) estaba asegurada bastantes desde hace bastante tiempo, antes de grabar su primer disco. Traducción de Alberto Manzano. Edición bilingüe.

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry. A freshly packaged series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers.Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1972, The Energy of Slaves is Cohen's fifth collection, and one of his most controversial. A dark and intense book, described by one critic as deliberately ugly, offensive, bitter, anti-romantic, Cohen considered it a document of his struggle--I've just written a book called The Energy of Slaves, he told an interviewer at the time, and in there I say that I'm in pain. Bracing, challenging, and equally beautiful and off-putting, it remains one of his most compelling and complex works.

What I'm Doing HereTo a Man Who ThinksHe Is Making an AngelI Had It for a Moment The HearthOn the Sickness of My LoveIsland Bulletin Portrait of the City HallCruel BabyIndependence CongratulationsFor MarianneThe House The Drawer's Condition on November 28, 1961The Failure of a Secular LifeOrder The SuitMy MentorsDestiny Business as UsualHydra 1960Queen Victoria and Me Indictment of the Blue HoleLeviathanThe Pure List and the Commentary Nothing I Can LoseHeirloomThe New Step (A Ballet-Drama in One Act) Police GazettePromiseThe Paper No PartnersSkyNursery Rhyme On the Death of an Uncharted PlanetWaiting for MarianneOld Dialogue I Wanted to Be a DoctorWhy I Happen to Be FreeWinter Bulletin On Hearing a NameLong UnspokenThe True DesireWhy Did You Give My Name to the Police? Finally I CalledThe Way BackGovernments Make Me Lonely StyleThe ProjectThe Lists Goebbels Abandons His Novel and Joins the PartyHydra 1963To the Indian Pilgrims Why Commands Are ObeyedAll There Is to Know about Adolph EichmannThe Music Crept By Us It Uses Us!The New LeaderThe Telephone The First MurderHow It Happened in the Middle of the DayDisguises My Teacher Is DyingFor E.J.P.Lot Montreal 1964The Glass DogOne of the Nights I Didn't Kill Myself Why Experience Is No TeacherA Migrating DialogueThe Big World For My Old LaytonThe BusNarcissus The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward LaundryCherry Orchards The Invisible TroubleThe Rest Is DrossStreetcars Sick AloneHow the Winter Gets InBullets MillenniumPropagandaHitler Hitler the Brain-MoleOpium and HitlerFront Lawn Death of a LeaderFor Anyone Dressed in MarbleKerensky Alexander Trocchi, Public JunkiePriez Pour NousWheels, FirecloudsAnother Night with Telescope Three Good NightsFolk

This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings.Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him an internationally revered figure. These fifteen poems, including “Death of a Lady’s Man,” “On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,” and “The Embrace,” are drawn from across his remarkable career and appear here for the first time with his illustrations. With its lyrical intensity and sensual immediacy, Fifteen Poems offers a potent distillation of the genre-crossing genius of one of the most admired artists of our time.

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10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love , a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely re-imagined and redesigned Dance Me to the End of Love. With the art of Matisse and the words of Cohen still at the heart of the book, the new look and feel of this Art & Poetry book is overwhelmingly beautiful.Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us and its healing, restorative power. Originally recorded on his Various Positions album, and featured in Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music , this poetic song is gloriously married to the art works by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his murals. Dance Me to the End of Love is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.

When his first album made him an unlikely star in the late 1960s, Leonard Cohen was hailed as the new poet of song. His melodies were hauntingly melodic but his lyrics were like no one else's - poignant, romantic, mystical and darkly comic. Already a poet and a novelist, Cohen had found another calling in song..."The Songs of Leonard Cohen", "Songs from a Room" and "Songs of Love and Hate" were the titles of his first three albums. Eight more would follow over the next 40 years. In this collector's edition, can be found the lyrics to over 100 of those classic songs, many of them now recorded by new generations of singers that include U2, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson. This unique collection demonstrates why.

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame , McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades.A freshly packaged new series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers.Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1966, Parasites of Heaven came in the wake of the success of Cohen's second novel, Beautiful Losers . While not as ambitious and singular as his three previous collections, Parasites of Heaven is an essential document in Cohen's evolution as it contains poems that would go on to form the basis of some of his most beloved songs, including "Suzanne" and "Avalanche."

Leonard Cohen’s two classic novels now available together in this collector’s edition.This beautifully designed collector’s hardcover edition brings together Leonard Cohen’s acclaimed novels in a single volume. Published originally in 1963 and 1966, these novels have had a recent resurgence of popularity and sales around the world.In his unforgettable debut novel, The Favourite Game , Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s classic novel of the sixties. Funny, harrowing, and deeply moving, it is his most defiant and uninhibited work.

Illustrated songbook from album of same name by singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen. Includes many photos of Cohen and article/interview with him that originally appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. The music notation includes guitar tablature. Songs included are:"Avalanche""Sing Another Song, Boys""Famous Blue Raincoat""No Diamonds in the Mine""Last Year's Man""Love Calls You By Your Name""Joan of Arc""Dress Rehearsal Rag"

An illustrated mantra style poem taken from the novel, BEAUTIFUL USERS, by the Canadian singer and songwriter, Leonard Cohen.

P/V/G Composer CollectionThis thick collection includes 43 favorites penned by legendary singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and iconoclast Leonard Cohen. Includes: Ain't No Cure for Love * Avalanche * Bird on a Wire * Chelsea Hotel #2 * (No) Diamonds in the Mine * Famous Blue Raincoat * The Guests * I'm Your Man * Jazz Police * Joan of Arc * Lady Midnight * A Singer Must Die * Sisters of Mercy * So Long, Marianne * Suzanne * Take This Longing * Tower of Song * You Know Who I Am * and more.

New Skin for the Old Ceremony was Leonard Cohen's 4th studio album. On it, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars, percussion & other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated, but nevertheless spare, sound. A remastered CD was released in 1995. The album is silver in the UK, but never dented the Billboard Top 200. In 2009, it was included in Hallelujah-The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection, an 8-CD box set issued by Sony Music in the Netherlands."Is This What You Wanted" – 4:13 "Chelsea Hotel #2" (Cohen, Ron Cornelius)– 3:06 "Lover Lover Lover" – 3:19 "Field Commander Cohen" – 3:59 "Why Don't You Try" – 3:50 "There Is a War" – 2:59 "A Singer Must Die" – 3:17 "I Tried to Leave You" – 2:40 "Who by Fire" – 2:33 "Take This Longing" – 4:06 "Leaving Green Sleeves" – 2:38

A concise collection of 15 of Leonard Cohen's best, Bird on a Wire * Chelsea Hotel #2 * Dress Rehearsal Rag * Everybody Knows * Famous Blue Raincoat * First We Take Manhattan * I'm Your Man * Joan of Arc * So Long Marianne * Suzanne * Take This Waltz * Tower of Song * Who by Fire * and more.

Esta antologí Leonar Cohen, A mil besos de profundidad, celebra los cincuenta años de la obra musical y poética del bardo canadiense, recogiendo sus mejores canciones y poemas a lo largo del período que va desde su primer libro de poesía, Comparemos Mitologías (1956), hasta el último El Libro del Anhelo (2006). Dividida en dos volúmenes, 1956 – 1978 y 1979 – 2006, incluye numerosos textos y canciones inéditas, además de sus clásicos Suzanne, Bird on the wire, Famous blue raincoat, Chelsea Hotel, Death of a ladies’ man, The guest, Hallelujah, First we take Manhattan, The future, In my secret life, y su más reciente obra maestro, Crazy to love you. Este primer volumen (1956 – 1978) corresponde Comparemos Mitologías (1956) La Caja de Especias de la Tierra (1961) Flores para Hitler (1964) Los Guapos Perdedores (1966) Parásitos del Cielo (1966) Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) Other Songs (1967) Nuevos Poemas (1967) Songs from a Room (1969) Songs of Love and Hate (1971) La Energía de los esclavos (1972) New Skin for the Old ceremony (1974) A Single Song (1976) Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977) La muerte de un Mujeriego (1978)

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The Future is one of the most popular Leonard Cohen recordings. It's his essential film-score album. Almost all its songs appear in Hollywood films. Relatively accessible, it contains everything from gospel-choruses (title track) to synthesizer ballads (Waiting for the Miracle), to pop-country (Closing Time), to marching band rhythms (Democracy). While not his most commercially successful album internationally, it's one of his most musically diverse outings. However, it was one of his biggest chart successes in his native Canada, where Closing Time & The Future were both Top 40. Cohen, whose singing voice is famously an acquired taste, won the '92 Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist. In his acceptance speech, he quipped that "only in Canada could I win a Best Vocalist award". The Future was his last album produced entirely in analog, then digitised after mixdown. Its working titles were Busted (after a line from Closing Time) & Be for Real. His then-girlfriend, actress Rebecca De Mornay, coproduced Anthem. Tacoma Trailer is one of two instrumentals in the Cohen catalog. The other is Improvisation from Live Songs. The album is silver in the UK & double-platinum in Canada. Almost 60 minutes, it was his longest album to date."The Future" – 6:41 "Waiting for the Miracle" (Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 7:42 "Be for Real" (Frederick Knight) – 4:32 "Closing Time"– 6:00 "Anthem" – 6:09 "Democracy" – 7:13 "Light as the Breeze" – 7:17 "Always" (Irving Berlin) – 8:04 "Tacoma Trailer" – 5:57

This is a pocket-sized collection of over 70 Leonard Cohen hits, with complete lyrics, guitar chord symbols, and chord diagrams. Perfect for fitting into gig bags Songs Ain't No Cure for Love * Bird on the Wire (Bird on a Wire) * Closing Time * Death of a Ladies' Man * First We Take Manhattan * Hallelujah * Lady Midnight * Lover Lover Lover * So Long Marianne * Winter Lady * and many more.

Confrontiamo allora i nostri miti è la raccolta poetica d’esordio di Leonard Cohen. Pubblicata originariamente nel 1956, questa silloge permette di riscoprire, a oltre cinquant’anni di distanza, le espressioni giovanili di una voce destinata ad affermarsi come una delle uniche e rappresentative del Novecento. Le spezie della terra comprende poesie scritte durante un soggiorno sull’isola greca di Hydra e pubblicate per la prima volta nel 1961. Questi versi catturano il lettore grazie alla magia delle immagini, al potere della precisione, al coraggio dell’onestà, muovendosi fra tematiche che caratterizzeranno tutta l’opera letteraria e musicale di Leonard misticismo e lussuria, depressione e sciamanesimo, l’eterno controcanto fra l’ironia e la tragicità della vita.