![]() They have the same gaunt expression page after page. Surprisingly, almost as if defying expectation, the portraits remain static. The book is illustrated with Cohen’s self-portraits. His work and life led him on travels all over the world, and in his poems there is in evidence, at times, the exhaustion of a life well worn. Take for example: “Her bread is very sweet/she baked it by herself/in an oven on a hill above the sea/an oven that I built…”Ĭohen’s long life (he was 82 when he died in 2016), was peppered with many relationships, women he met and left behind. And there are others too that are reminiscent of his works like “Suzanne Takes you down” from the 60s. In “Moving On”, these lines take the reader down familiar lanes: “I loved your face, I loved your hair/Your T-shirts and your eveningwear/As for the world, the job, the war/I ditched them all to love you more”. Most of the body of work is quintessential Cohen. Love and loss are the two themes that stand out most. ![]() This anthology is a wonderful window into the poet’s last year and is representative of a lot of his previous work. Cohen’s work is instantly recognisable – that easy free flow of emotion, the ins and out of young love and old flames, and that candid fireside chat way of looking at life. ![]() ![]() Adam Cohen, son of lyricist-poet Leonard Cohen has published this final collection of his father’s poems and songs. ![]()
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