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Book of Longing

By Leonard Cohen

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| Paperback | 9780771022296

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Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, StContinue

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The Book of Longing / Leonard Cohen

McClelland & Stewart, 231 pp, $32.99, hardcover. Like many ex-Montrealers, I would be willing to buy a collection of Leonard Cohen's telephone-pad doodles if they existed. The peripatetic songwriter has shadowed the days of my life as surely as the B ... (read full critics)

straight published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

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La migliore descrizione di questa bella raccolta di versi la dà forse lo stesso Cohen: "this odd collection of jazz riffs, pop-art jokes, religious kitsch and muffled prayer"...

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You are right, Sahara. There are no mists, or veils, or distances. But the mist is surrounded by a mist; and the veil is hidden behind a veil; and the distance continually draws away from the distance. That is why there are no mists, or veils, or distances. That is ... (continue)

You are right, Sahara
You are right, Sahara. There are no mists, or veils, or distances. But the mist is surrounded by a mist; and the veil is hidden behind a veil; and the distance continually draws away from the distance. That is why there are no mists, or veils, or distances. That is why it is called The Great Distance of Mists and Veils. It is here that The Traveller becomes The Wanderer, and The Wanderer becomes The One Who Is Lost, and The One Who Is Lost becomes The Seeker, and The Seeker becomes The Passionate Lover, and the Passionate Lover becomes The Beggar, and The Beggar becomes The Wretch, and The Wretch becomes The One Who Must Be Sacrificed, and The One Who Must Be Sacrificed becomes The Resurrected One, and The Resurrected One becomes The One Who Has Transcended The Great Distance of Mists and Veils. Then for a thousand years, or the rest of the afternoon, such a One spins in the Blazing Fire of Changes, embodying all the transformations, 86000 times a second. Then such a One, if he is a man, is ready to love the woman Sahara; and such a One, if she is a woman, is ready to love the man who can put into song The Great Distance of Mists and Veils. Is it you who is waiting, Sahara, or is it me?

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