Leonard Cohen

A collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death.

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful...

Youth and rebellion are inextricably linked to rock music of the 1960s. Much more than an aesthetic window dressing, popular music has a strong influence over culture and politics. In this powerful episode, Tony Palmer explores the role of pop music with as protest, and propaganda.

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal.Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling color-a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures...

Leonard Cohen continues to astonish his audience with an uncompromising and urgent new album. These nine new songs offer up the latest chapter in his significant contribution to contemporary music and thought.

Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing-his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy-during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly...

With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen-already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist-was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer-songwriters of the time. Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums, Cohen gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. His status as a cult...