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  1. 23 hours ago · Early and Rare Books of Leonard Cohen. By Audrey Golden. Jul 6, 2024. 5:37 PM. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), songwriter and musician extraordinaire, is best known for the music he made during his lifetime, with albums like Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971), and Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977).

  2. 2 days ago · When Leonard Cohen started penning songs, writing seemed to come naturally to him due to his background as a poet and a novelist. Inspired by writers like William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats and Jack Kerouac, Cohen dedicated himself to literature, releasing several novels and poetry books throughout the 1950s and ‘60s.

  3. 2 days ago · Gradually, despite Cohen's own good-natured evasiveness over the past 40 years, a surprisingly frank portrait begins to emerge of the legendary. From the distant days of his penniless beginnings as a much-praised poet in Montreal, through the travels, affairs and religious crisis to his latest tours, Cohen's extraordinary life and body of work is examined as never before.

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    3 days ago · In 2007, Glass also worked alongside Leonard Cohen on an adaptation of Cohen's poetry collection Book of Longing. The work, which premiered in June 2007 in Toronto, is a piece for seven instruments and a vocal quartet, and contains recorded spoken word performances by Cohen and imagery from his collection.

  5. 1 day ago · I recently purchased an original pen and ink drawing that book illustrator Frank Newfeld drew for Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth; the drawing appears on page 3 alongside the poem "Gift". The drawing is signed and dated '61, the year the book was published.

  6. 5 days ago · Leonard Cohen eventually spent seven years on the Greek island of Hydra where he wrote Flowers for Hitler, a remarkable anthology of poems as well as two novels The Favorite Game and Beautiful...

  7. 1 day ago · The book served as the basis for the 2022 documentary film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song; the film's co-creator said that Cohen "addressed the deepest of our human concerns about longing for connection and longing for some sort of hope, transcendence and acknowledgment of the difficulties of life."