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Leonard Cohen (1934–2016)

Autor(a) de Beautiful Losers

163+ Works 9,315 Membros 116 Críticas 47 Favorited

About the Author

Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal, Canada on September 21, 1934. He received a degree in English from McGill University and studied literature at Columbia University for a year. His first collection of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, was published in 1956. His other collections of mostrar mais poetry include The Spice-Box of Earth, Flowers for Hitler, Death of a Lady's Man, Poems and Songs, and Book of Longing. He also wrote two novels entitled The Favorite Game and Beautiful Losers. He was a musician and songwriter for almost five decades. He recorded 14 studio albums including Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, Songs of Love and Hate, Ten New Songs, Dear Heather, Popular Problems, and You Want It Darker. He wrote numerous songs including Hallelujah, Suzanne, Dress Rehearsal Rag, Bird on a Wire, The Story of Isaac, Famous Blue Raincoat, Dance Me to the End of Love, First We Take Manhattan, Everybody Knows, and Tower of Song. In 2008, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2010, he received a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He died on November 7, 2016 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers (1966) 1,755 exemplares
The Favourite Game (1963) 887 exemplares
Selected Poems 1956–1968 (1968) 585 exemplares
Book of Mercy (1984) 337 exemplares
The Spice-Box of Earth (1961) 278 exemplares
Poems and Songs (2011) 257 exemplares
Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) 251 exemplares
The Energy of Slaves (1972) 184 exemplares
Flowers for Hitler (1964) 144 exemplares
Dance Me to the End of Love (1995) — Contribuidor — 140 exemplares
The Essential Leonard Cohen (2022) 73 exemplares
You Want It Darker (2014) 66 exemplares
Songs of Love and Hate ♫ (1971) 58 exemplares
Leonard Cohen Greatest Hits (1989) 57 exemplares
Old ideas [2012 album] (2012) 54 exemplares
Ten New Songs (2001) 50 exemplares
Parasites of Heaven (1966) 50 exemplares
Songs From a Room (1969) 48 exemplares
The Future [1992 album] (1992) 46 exemplares
Various Positions [1984 album] (1984) 45 exemplares
The Best of Leonard Cohen (1990) 44 exemplares
The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen (1998) 38 exemplares
Dear Heather [2004 album] (2004) 38 exemplares
Popular Problems (2014) 36 exemplares
Live in London [2009 album] (2009) 35 exemplares
Poetry of mid-Century 1940-1960 (1964) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
More Best Of (1997) 32 exemplares
Leonard Cohen Anthology (Pvg) (1991) 31 exemplares
God Is Alive: Magic Is Afoot (2000) 28 exemplares
Tower of Song: Songs of Leonard Cohen / Various (1995) — Compositor — 25 exemplares
Cohen Live (1994) 24 exemplares
Songs From The Road (2010) 23 exemplares
Thanks for the Dance (2019) 20 exemplares
Recent Songs (1993) 20 exemplares
Live Songs (1996) 19 exemplares
I'm Your Man 17 exemplares
Fifteen Poems (2012) 17 exemplares
Hallelujah (1767) 16 exemplares
Canciones de Leonard Cohen (2000) 12 exemplares
Inside His Archive (2023) 7 exemplares
So Long, Marianne (1989) 7 exemplares
Songs of Leonard Cohen : Collectors Edition [sheet music] (2009) — Compositor — 6 exemplares
Poemas e Canções II (1976) 6 exemplares
Canciones II de Leonard Cohen (1989) 6 exemplares
The Leonard Cohen Collection (1991) 5 exemplares
Fingerpicking Leonard Cohen (1989) 5 exemplares
The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered (2012) — Songwriter — 5 exemplares
Live in Dublin [2013 album] (2013) 5 exemplares
Seductive Harmonies (2012) 4 exemplares
Vencidos da vida (2011) 4 exemplares
Great lyricists : Leonard Cohen (2008) — Lyricist — 4 exemplares
Leonard Cohen Folk 3 exemplares
Výbor z poezie (1998) 3 exemplares
Musique d'ailleurs (1994) 3 exemplares
Piosenki (1989) 2 exemplares
Under Review: 1978 - 2006 (2008) 2 exemplares
Il modo di dire addio (2017) 2 exemplares
Suzanne 2 exemplares
Leonard Cohen: Concise (1997) 2 exemplares
Sexton sånger (1977) 2 exemplares
ZERO Vol. 5 (1981) 2 exemplares
Collection (2008) 2 exemplares
Crush on You (2007) 2 exemplares
POESIE / 3 (2021) 1 exemplar
Bird on a Wire 1 exemplar
Snaga robova 1 exemplar
Lauluja 1 exemplar
Kendi Ağzından (2016) 1 exemplar
Zurich 1993 1 exemplar
Highlights 1 exemplar
השירים (2009) 1 exemplar
Lempileikki (2004) 1 exemplar
Gedichten 1 exemplar
Soldado de la vida 1 exemplar
Gezangen 1 exemplar
Almost Young. A Tribute (2014) 1 exemplar
Rakkauden orjat (1975) 1 exemplar
Leonard One Offs 1 exemplar
At the Beeb 1 exemplar
Who by fire 1 exemplar
(Untitled) 1 exemplar
Closing Time (1997) 1 exemplar
Early Years (2011) 1 exemplar
Salmos de Leonard Cohen (1986) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contribuidor — 593 exemplares
Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (2007) — Contribuidor — 136 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Elsewhere, Vol. III (1984) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
McCabe & Mrs. Miller [1971 film] (1971) — Compositor — 82 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2019 (2019) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (1992) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Ground Works: Avante-Garde for Thee (2002) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Ten Poems to Say Goodbye (2012) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man [Video] (2006) — Performer — 13 exemplares
The Analog Sea Review: Number Two (2019) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Analog Sea Review: Number One (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Art of Renée Fleming (2012) — Composer, "Hallelujah" — 8 exemplares
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Watchmen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2009) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições7 exemplares
The Analog Sea Review: Number Four (2022) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Pete's Dragon: Original 2016 Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Recollection: Best of Concrete Blonde — Songwriter — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

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I would have been shocked if I had not loved this collection of Leonard Cohen's poems, as he has been one of my favorite poet/songwriters for decades. His poetry continued to plumb his deep yearnings -- sexual, philosophical, and spiritual. A reminder of how much his voice is missed.
 
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bschweiger | 14 outras críticas | Feb 4, 2024 |
Biased? Maybe, but this collection is a beautiful compilation that shows Cohen’s many talents in a different light.
 
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cbwalsh | 5 outras críticas | Sep 13, 2023 |
A collection of poems, including many written during Cohen's time in a Zen monastery. Anyone familiar with any of his other work will probably find the themes and contents here unsurprising: sex, love, loneliness, and desire, the sacred and the earthy and the places where the two meet, anger and sadness and wistfulness and acceptance, the darkness and the light in the world, all intermixed with little personal moments and glimmerings of self-aware, self-deprecating humor.

Some of these poems instantly made sense to me and evoked thoughts and feelings I could relate to. Others were obscure enough that I suspect only the poet himself really knew who and what they were about. Most fell somewhere in between, which seems like a pretty good place for poetry to fall. Although, I must say, I'm usually not a very good reader of poetry (or poetry isn't a particularly good medium for me as a reader), as I often react poorly when I don't feel like I "get" a poem. It makes me feel uncultured and dumb, I suppose, which makes me feel resentful. But Leonard Cohen, as I realized the last time I read one of his poetry collections, circumvents that problem for me entirely, because I take his poems in exactly the spirit I take his song lyrics -- indeed, not a few of these have also appeared as songs on his albums -- and I've never felt dumb not understanding a song lyric, only interested in what I could make out of it for myself. And, as with his music, there is a lot to be made out of these poems.… (mais)
 
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bragan | 14 outras críticas | Aug 29, 2023 |
Two other books (novels) filed in fiction
 
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JimandMary69 | 5 outras críticas | Aug 17, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
163
Also by
25
Membros
9,315
Popularidade
#2,587
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
116
ISBN
430
Línguas
25
Marcado como favorito
47

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