The flame: poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings /
Literature, Poetry, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Bestsellers (Non-fiction)
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
This is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the poet and musician. It features poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A… reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, "The Flame" is a valedictory work. "This volume contains my father's final efforts as a poet," writes Cohen's son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. "It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end." Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But "each page of paper that he blackened," in the words of his son, "was lasting evidence of a burning soul." Bestseller. 2018.