{"id":130762,"date":"2018-11-07T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=130762"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:02:37","slug":"selections-from-leonard-cohens-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/selections-from-leonard-cohens-notebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Selections from Leonard Cohen\u2019s Notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Two years have passed since Leonard Cohen\u2019s death on the eve of the 2016 American presidential election, and to no one\u2019s surprise, the world remains steeped in the miserable mix of darkness and fleeting hope that the poet-songwriter articulated so well.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374156060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Flame<\/a><em>,\u00a0published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is Cohen\u2019s parting gift: a collection of poems, lyrics, drawings, and pages from his notebooks. Cohen\u2019s son, Adam, writes in his foreword: \u201cThis volume contains my father\u2019s final efforts as a poet \u2026 It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.\u201d Below, we present a selection of images from the book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/003_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/003_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/003_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/003_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/003_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/003_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/032_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/032_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-919x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/032_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-919x1024.jpg 919w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/032_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/032_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-768x856.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/032_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/094_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/094_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/094_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/094_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/085_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/085_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/085_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/085_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/085_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/085_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/087_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/087_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-669x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/087_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/087_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/087_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/086_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/086_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/086_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/086_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/086_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/078_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/078_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/078_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 564w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/078_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/119_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/119_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-1024x836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/119_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-1024x836.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/119_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/119_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/119_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/118_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-130766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/118_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-1024x831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/118_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-1024x831.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/118_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/118_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/118_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/007_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/007_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/007_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/007_cohe_9780771024412_art_r1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. Soon after graduating from McGill University, he published his first collection of poems, <\/em>Let Us Compare Mythologies<em>, in 1956. He would go on to publish a dozen more volumes of poetry, including <\/em>Book of Longing<em>, and two novels, <\/em>The Favorite Game<em> and <\/em>Beautiful Losers<em>. A hugely influential and critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, Cohen released fourteen studio albums between 1967 and 2016, the last being <\/em>You Want It Darker<em>, the title track of which posthumously won him the Grammy for Best Rock Performance. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010 and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 2010 Grammys. He won both the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011, and the first <small>PEN<\/small> New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in 2012. Cohen died in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374156060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings<\/a><em>, by Leonard Cohen. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux October 2nd 2018. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Leonard Cohen. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo know my father,\u201d Cohen\u2019s son, Adam, writes, \u201dwas (among many other wondrous things) to know a man with papers, notebooks, and cocktail napkins\u2014a distinguished handwriting on each\u2014scattered (neatly) everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30442],"tags":[35,12976,12745,26838,5250,504,13106,46,11718,227,40469,40468,40467,409,40466],"class_list":["post-130762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-document","tag-art","tag-drawings","tag-folk-music","tag-im-your-man","tag-leonard-cohen","tag-literature","tag-lyrics","tag-music","tag-notebooks","tag-self-portrait","tag-singer","tag-songs-of-leonard-cohen","tag-songs-of-love-and-hate","tag-songwriter","tag-you-want-it-darker"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Selections from Leonard Cohen\u2019s Notebooks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cTo know my 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