The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings [Paperback]

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There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on. BONO

The Flameis 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 Flameoffers 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 Flameis a valedictory work.

This volume contains my fathers final efforts as a poet, writes Cohens 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.

Leonard Cohenwas born in Montreal in 1934. Soon after graduating from McGill University, he published his first collection of poems,Let Us Compare Mythologies, in 1956. He would go on to publish a dozen more volumes of poetry, includingBook of Longing, and two novels,The Favourite GameandBeautifulLosers. A hugely influential and critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, Cohen released fourteen studio albums between 1967 and 2016, the last beingYou Want It Darker, for the title track of which he posthumously won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Grammys. He won both the Prince of Asturl³3