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Publisher: Canongate
Author: Leonard Cohen
ISBN: 9781786893147
Year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Poetry, Music
The Flame
by
Leonard Cohen
The Flame by
Leonard Cohen
Reviews
"Cohen’s enduring, beautiful bleakness is the draw here. His gift for understated melancholia is on each blackening page."
Daily Mail
Summary
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 New York Times Bestseller.