The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. “There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on.” -BONO One of Daily Mail and Financial Times's Best Books of 2018.

Very Fine / Fine.Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the Oprah Magazine. Dust-jacket in strong fine condition with only correspondingly minute shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back cover & spine-edge of same single, moderate-to-faintly-pronounced exhibit of rubbing along rightmost fine-edge of front cover, nearing upper right-hand corner of same, else pristine. In very fine condition with only minute shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back cover & spine lone exhibit of mild bumping to bottom right-hand corner of front cover, else pristine. Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket: First Edition, First Printing, as indicated by number sequence on copyright page.

If you’re hip to Leonard, get hip to this. One might expect the natural result of this to be a type of poem reflective of life with strictures, yet-and I say this excitedly, as one deeply inspired by the man-this book is the closest thing to the late-1960s “peak” of “Songs of Leonard Cohen” and “Songs from a Room” than nearly anything he’s put out since. As his monastic (quite literally) lifestyle began to consume areas of a formerly Western life, this once-swaggering Man of the Senses faded further and further into a life of the mind. He is the poetic equivalent of a delicious, warm tea cup in-hand…the sun peeking through, and something holy in the silence. No one is required to do anything other than enjoy whatever he’s left us with whatever corner of his uniquely constituted intellectual & creative mind you happen to find yourself in. Around a certain crowd, it’s safe to be presumptive when you’re talking about Leonard you can typically just get a feel from someone whether or not they’re (aesthetically, temperamentally, intellectually, etc.) the type who’d like Leonard Cohen. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, ‘The Flame’ offers and unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist” (front flap copy).

“THE FLAME is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world.

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2018. Cohen, Leonard The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings

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