Fifteen Poems

Leonard Cohen

Feb 2012 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings.

Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him an internationally revered figure. These fifteen poems, including “Death of a Lady’s Man,” “On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,” and “The Embrace,” are drawn from across his remarkable career and appear here for the first time with his illustrations. With its lyrical intensity and sensual immediacy, Fifteen Poems offers a potent distillation of the genre-crossing genius of one of the most admired artists of our time.

Ratings and reviews

I didn't know much about Leonard Cohen not even how prolific a songwriter he was. I'm discovering his work after his passing and realizing serendipitously that he was the definition of a Renaissance Man. I look forward to the homework I will be doing to make up for the lost time I would have put in devouring everything he has to offer. Rest In Peace.

Is worth reading or listening too, even his yawn..

A brilliant collection of Leonard Cohen's poems and prose that make his writing style as distinctive as his lyrics.

About the author

Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and eleven books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Book of Longing,and Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent of which, You Want It Darker, was released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. Mr. Cohen died in 2016.