But what seemed excessive or morbid in the younger man strikes the right note in the angry and tired old man.
In these final lyrics Death needs no introduction.Ĭohen’s depression was as legendary as his powers of seduction. ‘And who shall I say is calling?’ Cohen had once sung, the unsung answer being ‘Death’. The title song of You Want it Darker, released a few weeks before his death (from a fall after he’d become gravely ill with leukemia), is as good as any he wrote – and this was the writer of Bird on a Wire, Sisters of Mercy, Famous Blue Raincoat, I’m Your Man… In a medium originally intended as light entertainment, the song looks mortality squarely in the eye, joining Johnny Cash’s rendition of Hurt, David Bowie’s Blackstar and Bob Dylan’s Not Dark Yet among popular music’s memento mori. No poet who hadn’t obtained celebrity status would be allowed to mix so much inferior work in with the real gems.Īnd there were always gems, right up to the last. This beautifully produced book, containing the lyrics of Leonard Cohen’s last four albums, poems new and old, notebook entries, and Cohen’s self-portraits and drawings, is both a testament to the love that this seductive singer-songwriter-poet engendered in his many admirers and an act of indulgence. Nice problem to have! But for the serious writer – the kind who writes for God, or the Muse, or even posterity – indulgence is the opposite of what’s needed. Publisher: Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra S.A.A problem with being seductive is that you are likely to be indulged. Lupette, Christian Lux, Klaus Modick, Kerstin Preiwuß, Marcus Roloff, Ron Winkler, Katja Winter Translated by Nora Bossong, Matthias Kniep, Nikolai Kobus, Simone Kornappel, Nadja Küchenmeister, Léonce W.
Read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani Publisher: Canongate Books, United Kingdom Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, USA Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto/Montreal, Canada Cover Gallery of Leonard Cohen's books / The Flame
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