![]() "I'm always thinking of a song/ For Anjani to sing," begins a sweet poem about his collaborator and lover, Anjani Thomas. The Indian Girl (dated 1980) is a self-mythologising prose poem with all the raw intimacy of those in his 1978 book Death of a Ladies Man, while The Los Angeles Times (1999) is a wry meditation on death and “matters mostly Canadian” that swerves from pathos to daft humour. Don't expect a Suzanne or a Hallelujah, or even the prickly inventiveness of his early books, but anyone who loved The Book of Longing (2006) will find much to enjoy here.Īmong the 87 pages of previously unpublished poems, the best are older work. You might not think so from the recent poems in The Flame, though, which at times read like melodic filler, compared with the fine-tuned verses of his three brilliant final albums (also included here in full). But Cohen, a published poet long before he picked up a guitar, has a better claim than most. ![]() Many pop stars are heralded as literary heavyweights, whether by themselves (West) or others ( Bob Dylan). ![]() I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is," Leonard Cohen boasts, amusingly, in a recent poem. ![]()
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