Leonard Cohen Poems: poems and songs (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

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By the end of the decade Cohen's rep as a sage elder was ultra tight, inspiring doom disciples such as Kurt Cobain, Trent Reznor, and Nick Cave.

In 1976, Cohen said during the concert that his now famous song was written for "the Egyptians and the Israelis", though he wrote and performed the song for the Israeli soldiers during the war, and the song originally contained the lines "I went down to the desert to help my brothers fight". Sasaki appears as a regular motif or addressee in Cohen's poetry, especially in his Book of Longing, and took part in a 1997 documentary about Cohen's monastery years, Leonard Cohen: Spring 1996. Been on the road forever I’m always passing through but you’re my first love and my last, there is no one, no one after you. Cohen attended Roslyn Elementary School and completed grades seven through nine at Herzliah High School, where his literary mentor (and later inspiration) Irving Layton taught. Officially billed as the "World Tour 2010", the tour started on July 25, 2010, in Arena Zagreb, Croatia, and continued with stops in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, and Ireland, where on July 31, 2010, Cohen performed at Lissadell House in County Sligo.The book concludes with an index of first lines and there's a pic of a very young Leonard on the back cover.

In 2011 he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. Sometimes it gets so lonely, I don’t know what to do, I’d trade my stash of boredom for a little hit of you. We would just drop into little places, like a rocket site and they would shine their flashlights at us and we would sing a few songs.Cohen died on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82 at his home in Los Angeles; leukemia was a contributing cause. Death is the moment when all eyes are upon the poet for the last time; beyond, for most harmless drudges, lies the abyss.