Leonard Cohen Books

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. Already a poet and a novelist, Cohen had found another calling in song..."The Songs of Leonard Cohen", "Songs from a Room" and "Songs of Love and Hate" were the titles of his first three albums. Eight more would follow over the next 40 years. In this collector's edition, can be found the lyrics to over 100 of those classic songs, many of them now recorded by new generations of singers that include U2, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson. This unique collection demonstrates why.

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world.In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy," "Bird on the Wire," "Famous Blue Raincoat," and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy.

When his fist album was released in 1967, Leonard Cohen was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' hugely popular recording of 'Suzanne. ' With the sucess of the first and through the release of ten more albums, Cohen Gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. Over the years his status as a cult artist has grown, and in 1988 the release of his album I'm Your Man' put Cohen back into the mainstream spotlight. His latest recording, 'The Future' has brought him renewed, widespread acclaim and this collection will include lyrics from that album, together with many of his famous classics, such as Suzanne, Joan of Arcand The Chelsea Hotel. STRANGER MUSIC brings together Cohen's song lyrics and a generous selection of his poetry (originally published between 1956-1992). It is a long overdue celebration of Leonard Cohen's extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen?s personal archive provide fresh insight into the artist?s creative pursuits and the arc of his career over six decades. Aware from an early age that he was destined to make a mark on this world, Cohen preserved an expansive collection of letters, journals, manuscripts, sketches and records. Together, they provide a rich visual road map to his evolution as a poet and songwriter.0The first publication to present the holdings of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust, Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive immerses readers in the many facets of Cohen?s creative life. Images of rare concert footage and archival materials, including musical instruments, notebooks, lyrics and letters, are featured alongside photographs, drawings and digital art created by Cohen across several decades.00Exhibition: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Ontario, Canada (07.12.2022-10.04.2023)

Leonard Cohens Vermächtnis. »Die Flamme« ist Leonard Cohens sprachmächtiger Abgesang, eine Abschiedsrede, bestehend aus Songtexten, Gedichten, Notizbucheinträgen und Illustrationen. 2016 starb im Alter von 82 Jahren der große Sänger und Dichter Leonard Cohen – und »die Welt wurde dunkler«, wie es in einem der unzähligen Nachrufe hieß. Mit Songs wie »Hallelujah« oder »Suzanne« wurde er in den späten 1960ern weltberühmt. In seinen letzten Lebensjahren wuchs seine Popularität noch einmal. Bis kurz vor seinem Tod arbeitete er an diesem Buch, seinem literarischen Vermächtnis. Wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod, gab Leonard Cohen dem New Yorker ein Interview, in dem er sagte, er sei bereit zu sterben. Er brauche nur unbedingt noch genug Zeit, um sein allerletztes Buch fertigzustellen. Glücklicherweise wurde er erhört. Entstanden ist eine Kartographie seines einzigartigen Lebensweges. Neben noch unbekannten Gedichten und Zeichnungen finden sich in diesem Buch zum ersten Mal ausgewählte Notizbucheinträge Cohens, die dem Leser das Innenleben dieses Ausnahmekünstlers erstaunlich nahe bringen.

A collection of poetry and prose, interspersed with lyrics, discursive passages and diary extracts from the Cohen the legendary Canadian songwriter- poet. It looks at love with all its dilemmas, and it is largely autobiographical in tone, offering the reader insights into Cohen's world and his writing.

The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world. The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces, and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, 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 set out to explore our darkest questions and came back wanting, yearning for more.

This collection features a diverse array of reflections and narratives that explore themes of love, identity, and the human experience. Each piece delves into the complexities of life, from personal struggles to broader societal observations. The author navigates through moments of introspection, addressing the intricacies of relationships and the impact of external forces on individual lives. The work encompasses a range of styles, from poetic musings to dramatic dialogues, illustrating the multifaceted nature of existence. The pieces reflect on personal ambition, the search for meaning, and the weight of history, often blending the personal with the political. Through vivid imagery and poignant language, the author invites readers to contemplate their own experiences and the world around them. The narratives resonate with a sense of longing and inquiry, challenging preconceived notions and encouraging a deeper understanding of oneself and others. Overall, this collection serves as a profound exploration of life's myriad challenges and triumphs, leaving readers with lingering questions about their own journeys and the connections that bind us all.

The New York Times bestselling final collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen.

Significant wear and tear on book cover, previous library book, but inside pages are in pretty good shape. Small amt of pencil writing. Ships immediately.

Popular since its original publication more than 35 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is just as relevant and compelling as ever. 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. The poems in Book of Mercy brim 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.

The passionate and accomplished debut collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before 'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning. Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he'd settled on Greece's Hydra island, the pieces in this collection offer startling insight into Cohen's imagination and creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire to longing, whether for love, family, freedom or transcendence. The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers - one he later remarked was 'probably a better novel' than his celebrated book The Favourite Game - is a haunting examination of these elements, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself. Meditative, surprising, playful and provocative, A Ballet of Lepers is vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, and reveals the great artist and visceral genius like never before.

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates 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.

This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. 'Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.' Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen's unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque. Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen's voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our guides.

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors. First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.

Leonard Cohen's work showcases his unparalleled talent as a lyricist, revealing a collection of previously unpublished novels and stories. Through rich prose and poetic language, he explores profound themes of love, loss, and the human experience. This compilation offers readers a deeper understanding of Cohen's artistic vision, blending his signature lyrical style with narrative storytelling, making it a significant addition to his literary legacy.

Chords and lyrics for 70 songs as performed by Leonard Cohen on various sound recordings; words and music chiefly by Cohen.

Leonard Cohen è uno dei più ispirati e influenti cantautori di tutti i tempi, autore di classici come «Suzanne», «Bird on A Wire», «I'm Your Man», «Hallelujah» e ispiratore di un'intera generazione di musicisti, da Suzanne Vega a Bono Vox, a Nick Cave. Una popolarità che non accenna a spegnersi: nel marzo del 2008 è stato accolto nella prestigiosa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Alla carriera musicale, Cohen affianca da sempre quella letteraria; è autore di poesie e romanzi acclamati dal pubblico e dalla critica (la sua ultima opera, Il libro del desiderio, è stato un bestseller in Canada). Dopo L'energia degli schiavi e Confrontiamo allora i nostri miti, suo libro d'esordio, minimum fax propone adesso la raccolta di poesie Le spezie della terra, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1961. Scritte durante un soggiorno sull'isola greca di Hydra, queste poesie catturano il lettore grazie alla magia delle immagini, al potere della precisione, al coraggio dell'onestà, muovendosi fra tematiche che caratterizzeranno tutta l'opera letteraria e musicale di Cohen: misticismo e lussuria, depressione e sciamanesimo, l'eterno controcanto fra l'ironia e la tragicità della vita.

Leonard Cohen, uno de los artistas más influyentes de las últimas décadas, dejó una profunda huella en varias generaciones. Pocos meses antes de su fallecimiento en noviembre de 2016, compartió en una entrevista su preparación para la muerte, destacando la importancia de dejar todo en orden como una actividad reconfortante. Esta recopilación póstuma, concebida por él como un elocuente adiós, presenta una muestra generosa de su obra, incluyendo tanto material inédito como publicado. El volumen abarca nuevos poemas que exploran temas como la guerra, el arrepentimiento y la amistad, además de las letras de sus cuatro álbumes más recientes y fragmentos de sus cuadernos, que atesoró desde su adolescencia. Entre los textos, se encuentran autorretratos y dibujos que añaden una dimensión visual a su legado. Con un tono que oscila entre lo melancólico y lo irreverente, lo místico y lo carnal, estas páginas reflejan la sensibilidad y la aguda inteligencia de un "alma en llamas". A través de una nostalgia impregnada de escepticismo, Cohen revisita los hitos de su vida y enfrenta con valentía el final de su camino.

Montreal, wo er 1934 geboren wurde, sei der einzige Ort, an dem er sich je zu Hause gefühlt habe. Leonard Cohens Eltern sind gläubige Juden, und er selbst wird zeit seines Lebens ein spirituell Suchender sein. Und dann sind da noch die Frauen: Gitarre lernt er angeblich nur deshalb spielen, weil er ein Mädchen für sich gewinnen will. Zunächst aber zieht es ihn nicht zur Musik, sondern zur Literatur. Schon mit dreizehn lernt er die Gedichte García Lorcas auswendig. Und Cohen schreibt selbst: Gedichte und Romane. Kaum jemand kann sich da vorstellen, dass er als Sänger reüssieren wird - mit dieser Stimme. Trotzdem versucht sich Cohen bald als Musiker, zunächst aus finanziellen Gründen. Auf dem Newport Folk Festival 1976, wo er Joni Mitchell zum ersten Mal begegnet, erlebt er seinen Durchbruch. In diesen Gesprächen erzählt Cohen eindringlich und mit Nonchalance von hellen und dunklen Zeiten, Begegnungen mit Jimi Hendrix und Janis Joplin im New Yorker Greenwich Village der späten sechziger Jahre, seinem Absturz in den siebziger Jahren, Depressionen, vielen Liebschaften, den Jahren im Zen-Kloster und natürlich von seinen großen Songs.

Kniha básní legendárneho speváka a skladateľa.

Písňové texty, verše, krátké texty, bibliografie a diskografie slavného hudebníka a zpěváka.

Výběr z básnického díla Leonarda Cohena obsahuje texty ze sbírek Porovnejme si mytologie (1956), Ročenka zem (1961), Květiny pro Hitlera (1964), Vybrané básně 1956-1968 (1968), Energie otroků (1972) a Smrt muže jedné ženy (1978).

Navzdory Cohenově uhýbavosti, která je příznačná pro jeho vlastní zpětné pohledy na uplynulých čtyřicet let, se z textu knihy postupně vynořuje překvapivě upřímný obraz legendární osobnosti, jež se těší ojedinělé loajalitě obdivovatelů a ctitelů všech věkových skupin. Od dávných málo lukrativních začátků mladého a nadšeně přijímaného montrealského básníka přes hojné cestování, milostné vztahy a náboženské krize k nedávným koncertním šňůrám se tu Cohenův život předestírá jako dosud nikdy. Fascinující podrobný životopis Anthony Reynoldse čerpá z desítek nových rozhovorů s minulými i současnými členy Cohenových doprovodných skupin, jeho obchodními partnery, redaktory, přáteli, fanoušky, producenty, kolegy, odpůrci a vrstevníky.