Book of longing

Book of longing

Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016

Book - 2006

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Published
New York : Ecco [2006]
Language
English
Main Author
Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016 (-)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Poems.
Physical Description
231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780061125584
  • Irving And Me At The Hospital
  • He stood up for Nietzsche
  • I stood up for Christ
  • He stood up for victory
  • I stood up for less
  • I loved to read his verses
  • He loved to hear my song
  • We never had much interest
  • In who was right or wrong
  • His boxer's hands were shaking
  • He struggled with his pipe
  • Imperial Tobacco
  • Which I helped him light
  • Kitchen Table
  • The same useless thoughts arise but no one claims them - Loneliness seizes the frame and shakes away hope but no one is hopeless no one is lonely - The intricate preparations for the next moment direct you to read this now - Surrendered to the One who placed me here I sit at the very table where these songs began some forty years ago - busy as a bee in the solitude - Hydra, 1999
  • From the Hardcover edition.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Renowned singer-songwriter Cohen also boasts a reputation as a writer for the printed page, especially in his native Canada. This capacious collection (his first since 1993's Stranger Music) compiles musings, jottings, quatrains, brief lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, along with Cohen's ink drawings and work in his own handwriting. The melancholy Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women (as when recalling his seduction of "the most beautiful girl/ on the religious left"), Zen doctrine, his own advancing age (Cohen turned 70 two years ago) and the legacy of the '60s. Many poems feel like his song lyrics: "Sometimes just a list/ Of my events/ Is holier than the Bill of Rights/ And more intense." The volume will get a boost from Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, a documentary scheduled for theatrical release. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Book of Longing The Book of Longing I can't make the hills The system is shot I'm living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like a rock But time is long gone Past my laughing stock My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret For someone will use What I couldn't be My heart will be hers Impersonally She'll step on the path She'll see what I mean My will cut in half And freedom between For less than a second Our lives will collide The endless suspended The door open wide Then she will be born To someone like you What no one has done She'll continue to do I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book Book of Longing . Copyright © by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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