![]() ![]() ![]() The poems aren't extremely polished but they have some sort of quality to them that just. Just seeing the words scrawled through Cohen's notebooks, and sensing the emotions put into it, so candid and un-sensationalized. It's stunning because it never feels filtered. ![]() Even in his other books, published while he was alive, such as Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen's poetry is so. The rhymes are sometimes stilted, sometimes imperfect, but I think that's what I love most about them. 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. He writes what he feels, and what he thinks, and sometimes it seems simple, or incoherent, or obvious. 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. Not to say that other poets don't truly cherish the beauty of words and writing but when it comes to Cohen, the words don't have to try, or rhyme, or make sense. ![]() Unlike a lot of other poetry I have read, Leonard Cohen is writing simply out of pure enjoyment. You can tell that he is writing these poems and lyrics not to impress people, not to sell, not to seem more distinguished or prominent, not to seem deep. Because the way that Leonard Cohen interacts with words- it's different. Reading this book, however, made me want to rediscover him, and take a deeper listen to his music. ![]()
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