Leonard Cohen

“There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on.” —BONO The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work. “This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,” writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.” Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,” in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”

Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings

The Flame

Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetry Series in Canada, with its original cover and illustrations by Canadian artist Freda Guttman.

Let Us Compare Mythologies

A collection of song lyrics and poems from the long and influential career of one of the most acclaimed and admired poet-songwriters in the world.

Poems and Songs

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longingis his eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music. Book of Longingcontains erotic, playful and provocative line drawings by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen's artistry with language world-wide recognition. Book of Longingdemonstrates the range and depth of Cohen's work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

Book of Longing

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged. Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems inBook of Mercybrim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.

Book of Mercy

The Favorite Game

The Spice Box of Earth

Ballet of Lepers

A collection of the song lyrics and poetry of the Canadian novelist and poet showcases the clarity, passion, and timeless quality of his literary work. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Selected Poems and Songs

Stranger Music

Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed - characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at the novel’s start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.

Beautiful Losers

An uncovered novel from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen.

A Novel and Stories

A Ballet of Lepers

This collection of poems contains erotic, playful and provocative line drawings by the author, which interact in unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is at times darkly humorous.

Death of a Lady's Man

Flowers for Hitler

Poesie: Confrontiamo allora i nostri miti-Le spezie della terra. Testo inglese a fronte

Patti Smith

Rock Ozanlari

Un poemario en el que Leonard Cohen trabajó durante más de veinte años y en el que ha volcado su saber, sus dudas, sus miedos, sus consideraciones en torno al amor, al mundo que nos rodea, a la muerte... Leonard Cohen es una de las figuras más fascinantes de nuestro tiempo. Su voz rota y leñosa ha cantado todas las miserias y grandezas de la condición humana a lo largo de más de cuarenta años. Muchas veces se le ha calificado como uno de los mejores poetas del siglo, gracias, en gran medida, a que su talento musical ha ido siempre acompañado de una asombrosa destreza verbal. Los poemas aquí reunidos vienen acompañados por dibujos del propio Leonard Cohen, haciendo de este libro un complemente imprescindible a sus canciones. Reseñas: «Destila pesimismo, ironía, pasión y misticismo descreído -los ingredientes de siempre, a ver-. [...] Cuenta con un exquisito barniz de humor irónico.» Jesús Fernández Úbeda, Libertad Digital «El poemario en el que trabajó durante más de veinte años nos ofrece el sensacional corazón del músico al desnudo.» Pilar Manzanares, AR revista

Libro del anhelo

10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely re-imagined and redesigned Dance Me to the End of Love. With the art of Matisse and the words of Cohen still at the heart of the book, the new look and feel of this Art & Poetry book is overwhelmingly beautiful. Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us and its healing, restorative power. Originally recorded on his Various Positions album, and featured in Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music, this poetic song is gloriously married to the art works by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his murals. Dance Me to the End of Love is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.

Dance Me to the End of Love

When his first album made him an unlikely star in the late 1960s, Leonard Cohen was hailed as the new poet of song. His melodies were hauntingly melodic but his lyrics were like no one else's; poignant, romantic, mystical and darkly comic.

The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen

This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings. Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him an internationally revered figure. These fifteen poems, including “Death of a Lady’s Man,” “On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,” and “The Embrace,” are drawn from across his remarkable career and appear here for the first time with his illustrations. With its lyrical intensity and sensual immediacy, Fifteen Poems offers a potent distillation of the genre-crossing genius of one of the most admired artists of our time.

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