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The Flame

Poems and Selections From Notebooks

by Leonard Cohen
Margaret Atwood
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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.

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  • Release date

    October 2, 2018

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780771018381
      • File size: 131868 KB
      • Duration: 04:34:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A celebrity cast certainly contributes to the success of this audiobook, but each voice is identified only on its first appearance. After that, unless you know the voices, you must rely not on star power but on the quality of the narrations; fortunately, that is consistently very high. The excerpts from the late singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's notebooks range from the seventies to just a few years ago, but the poems and lyrics are among his last, and seeing the evolution from his early work is fascinating. His spirituality becomes deeper and darker, and its specifically Jewish character becomes clearer. The many narrators are familiar with Cohen's phrasing, and they provide an eloquent tribute. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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