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The Flame

By Leonard Cohen
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The Flame by Leonard Cohen is a posthumous collection showcasing the renowned artist’s final works. It comprises a blend of poetry, song lyrics, and selections from his notebooks, reflecting deep meditations on love, loss, and artistic expression. This collection provides a profound insight into Cohen's enduring creativity and philosophical musings.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate the profound reflections and evocative poems of an iconic musician and poet. Offering a deeply personal glimpse into the author's psyche, this work showcases his creativity through a rich collection of poems, illustrations, and lyrics. If you are drawn to introspective and artfully crafted literary expressions, this might be an inspiring choice for you.

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The Flame

The final collection of poetry and prose from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen, introduced by his son Adam Cohen.

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These poems and notebooks are the last word from the late, great Leonard Cohen.

The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and writings, selected and ordered by Cohen in the final months of his life. The book contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life. It 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 has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more.

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The Flame by Leonard Cohen has been praised for its youthful spark, beauty, and romance, serving as a posthumous collection that completes Cohen's artistic circle. Critics have highlighted its enduring melancholia, spiritual depth, and the distillation of themes like love, death, and piety. This final volume of Cohen's work, introduced by his son, Adam, is celebrated as a fitting tribute to the poet's sharpness and abiding humour, offering solace to fans still mourning his loss.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786893130

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Illustration: b/w images throughout

Contributors:

  • Edited by Robert Faggen
  • Foreword by Adam Cohen
  • Edited by Alexandra Pleshoyano

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 162.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 576g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Leonard Cohen Non-Fiction

About the Author

Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.

Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.

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