Leonard Cohen

Gebundenes Buch

The Flame

Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings

Beschreibung

In addition to new poems about war, desire, regrets, lamb chops, and hummingbirds, and lyrics from his last three albums, including the chart-topping You Want It Darker, The Flame includes carefully selected excerpts from Cohen's voluminous notebooks, which he kept faithfully over the years.

Autor

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. Soon after graduating from McGill University, he published his first collection of poems, Let Us Compare Mythologies, in 1956. He would go on to publish a dozen more volumes of poetry, including Book of Longing, and two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers. A hugely influential and critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, Cohen released fourteen studio albums between 1967 and 2016, the last being You Want It Darker, for the title track of which he posthumously won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Grammys. He won both the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011, and the first PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in 2012. Cohen died in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 900193815
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780374156060
• ISBN-10: 0374156069
• Artikelnr.: 50851980

Rezensionen

The last word in love and despair . . . Full of youthful spark, beauty and romance . . . Elegantly and posthumously published . . . Leonard Cohen does not use language to pose, startle or reinvent. Words are his old comrades, and see him through to the end Kate Kellaway Observer, Poetry book of the month