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“Book of Longing has exceptional range. It is clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound.” (New York Times )
“. . .alive and contradictory. . . you should read the whole volume. . .” (LA Weekly )
“. . .alive and contradictory. . . you should read the whole volume. . .” (LA Weekly )
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Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—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 humorous. An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition.
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16 von 17 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
Als großer Leonard Cohen Fan habe ich mir nun endlich auch ein Buch von ihm zugelegt. Wohlwissend dass ich nicht alles perfekt verstehen werde, habe ich es mir in Originalsprache gekauft, um den Wohlklang der Gedichte nicht durch Übersetzungen zu gefährden. Die Texte sind, wie seine Lieder, sehr tiefsinnig und schön. Man erkennt den (selbst)kritischen, leicht melancholischen Autor in jedem einzelnen Werk wieder.
Empfehlenswert ist dieses Buch für all jene die gern moderne Lyrik lesen und natürlich für Cohen Fans, die nicht nur vom Klang sondern auch vom Inhalt seiner Lieder begeister sind!
Empfehlenswert ist dieses Buch für all jene die gern moderne Lyrik lesen und natürlich für Cohen Fans, die nicht nur vom Klang sondern auch vom Inhalt seiner Lieder begeister sind!
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102 von 105 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Action and Contemplation, Cigarettes and Asceticism, Clutching Fast and Letting Go
1. Juni 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
These are just some of the themes explored by Leonard Cohen in this very excellent volume of verse.
But hold on - how do cigarettes qualify as a theme? Well perhaps they don't quite make it to the thematic level, but they do put in enough appearances to be seen as noteworthy.
Here is an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Cigarette Issue":
But what is exactly the same
is the promise, the beauty
and the salvation
of cigarettes
the little Parthenon
of an unopened pack of cigarettes
and Mumbai, like the Athens
of forty years ago
is a city to smoke in
Cohen manages to weave a smoke into his deft handling of the tension and attraction of opposites in "What Did It", which follows in its entirety...
An acquaintance told me
that the great sage
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Once offered him a cigarette,
"Thank you, sir, but I don't smoke."
"Don't smoke?" said the master,
"What's life for?"
And so it goes, dealing with life and death, love and lust, spirit and truth, and the path the author has walked in his quest for God, or G-d, as he chooses reverentially to refer to him.
While Cohen's wry humor and self deprecating detachment are at times in evidence, some verses are almost terrifying in their seriousness and immediacy. The following is from "By the Rivers Dark" which makes up the lyrics of a song by the same name on the excellent CD "Ten New Songs"...
then he struck my heart
with a deadly force
and he said, "This heart
it is not yours."
Interspersed throughout the volume is a series of self portraits of the artist as an apparently angst filled old man, juxtaposed against his arresting sketches of a number of exceedingly voluptuous women.
But in the end this is a wistful book and it is appropriate that it is entitled "Book of Longing".
Here is "Nightingale", in its entirety:
I built my house beside the wood
So I could hear you singing
And it was sweet and it was good
And love was all beginning
Fare thee well my nightingale
`Twas long ago I found you
Now all your songs of beauty fail
The forest closes `round you
The sun goes down behind a veil
`Tis now that you would call me
So rest in peace my nightingale
Beneath your branch of holly
Fare thee well my nightingale
I lived but to be near you
Though you are singing somewhere still
I can no longer hear you
But hold on - how do cigarettes qualify as a theme? Well perhaps they don't quite make it to the thematic level, but they do put in enough appearances to be seen as noteworthy.
Here is an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Cigarette Issue":
But what is exactly the same
is the promise, the beauty
and the salvation
of cigarettes
the little Parthenon
of an unopened pack of cigarettes
and Mumbai, like the Athens
of forty years ago
is a city to smoke in
Cohen manages to weave a smoke into his deft handling of the tension and attraction of opposites in "What Did It", which follows in its entirety...
An acquaintance told me
that the great sage
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Once offered him a cigarette,
"Thank you, sir, but I don't smoke."
"Don't smoke?" said the master,
"What's life for?"
And so it goes, dealing with life and death, love and lust, spirit and truth, and the path the author has walked in his quest for God, or G-d, as he chooses reverentially to refer to him.
While Cohen's wry humor and self deprecating detachment are at times in evidence, some verses are almost terrifying in their seriousness and immediacy. The following is from "By the Rivers Dark" which makes up the lyrics of a song by the same name on the excellent CD "Ten New Songs"...
then he struck my heart
with a deadly force
and he said, "This heart
it is not yours."
Interspersed throughout the volume is a series of self portraits of the artist as an apparently angst filled old man, juxtaposed against his arresting sketches of a number of exceedingly voluptuous women.
But in the end this is a wistful book and it is appropriate that it is entitled "Book of Longing".
Here is "Nightingale", in its entirety:
I built my house beside the wood
So I could hear you singing
And it was sweet and it was good
And love was all beginning
Fare thee well my nightingale
`Twas long ago I found you
Now all your songs of beauty fail
The forest closes `round you
The sun goes down behind a veil
`Tis now that you would call me
So rest in peace my nightingale
Beneath your branch of holly
Fare thee well my nightingale
I lived but to be near you
Though you are singing somewhere still
I can no longer hear you
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Confessional poetry and writings from a wise and humorous soul....
31. Mai 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is Leonard Cohen. You get tongue-in-cheek self portraits dispersed amongst words that are sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, sometimes brilliant observations and sometimes self depricating honesty that reveals the always human-ness and always unique voice of this living legend of a song writer, writer and poet, Mr. Leonard Cohen.
This guy is Interesting with a capital "I." Reason enough to check out his long awaited book of poems, drawings and essays. Another reason is that unlike most books of poetry it is 'entertaining' without sacrificing intelligence. His wry humour is laugh out loud funny in the the short essay, "The Luckiest Man in the World" and poems such as, "Never Once."
He speaks of things that matter to him: his teacher, Roshi, pine trees, G-d, women, sex, laughter, mists, women and most of all from what I see the unending mystery of "self" (and women). When that self is Leonard Cohen it is worth stopping what you are doing and reading what he has to say.
Then, if you are not familiar with Cohen's music, you are missing some of the best written lyrics and music, ever.
Enjoy,
Laurie
This guy is Interesting with a capital "I." Reason enough to check out his long awaited book of poems, drawings and essays. Another reason is that unlike most books of poetry it is 'entertaining' without sacrificing intelligence. His wry humour is laugh out loud funny in the the short essay, "The Luckiest Man in the World" and poems such as, "Never Once."
He speaks of things that matter to him: his teacher, Roshi, pine trees, G-d, women, sex, laughter, mists, women and most of all from what I see the unending mystery of "self" (and women). When that self is Leonard Cohen it is worth stopping what you are doing and reading what he has to say.
Then, if you are not familiar with Cohen's music, you are missing some of the best written lyrics and music, ever.
Enjoy,
Laurie
18 von 18 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen
9. März 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
For anyone who loves Leonard Cohen's music, this book is a wonderful collection of poems, drawings, images, rants, recollections and celebrations. Some of the material is in the film called Leonard Cohen/I'm Your Man, and like the songs, the book speaks of love and loss, pain and sorrow in his inimitable, elliptical style. Fun to read and easy to pick up and put down at any point.
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