Beautiful Losers is a novel by Leonard Cohen. Published in 1966 by McClelland and Stewart, it was the Canadian novelist-poet's second novel, and precedes his career as a singer-songwriter. It is noted as being perhaps Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work,[citation needed] and is also one of the best-known experimental novels to be published during the 1960s. Beautiful...
Toronto/Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1984. — 112 p. — ISBN: 0771022069; ISBN: 0771021828. A strikingly beautiful book of meditations, prayers, psalms, contemplative texts, which efface the author's ego in deference to a higher presence which seems in equal parts Hebrew G-d, Zen Master, and Poetic Muse. A key book for understanding the later Cohen's commitment to...
Flowers for Hitler is Canadian poet Leonard Cohen's third collection of poetry, first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart. Like other artworks regarding Adolf Hitler as a subject, it was somewhat controversial in its day. The inscription on its initial page reads "In an earlier time this would be called Sunshine for Napoleon, and earlier still it would have been called...
New York: Vintage Books, 1994. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0679755411; ISBN13: 978-0679755418. To appreciate these poems, we must suspend any notions of poetry as an intellectual art form and approach this work as one would a rack of greeting cards. Rhyme abounds, frankly showing Cohen at his best because it holds his didactic nature in check. Although there are few surprises, such as...
Welcome to these lines. I threw open the shutters light fell on this poem. I threw open the shutters: light fell on these lines. This is the only poem. All men delight you. I'd like to read. Portrait of a girl. My skin is made of stars. There are no traitors among women. Poetry begun in this mood rarely succeeds. I am invisible to night. It takes a long time to see you Terez. I...
The Spice-Box of Earth is Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen's second collection of poetry. It was first published in 1961 by McClelland and Stewart. The book brought the then 27 year-old poet a measure of early literary acclaim. Many poems have been anthologized in Canadian school textbooks. Following The Spice-Box of Earth, Cohen retreated for several years to the...
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