by Leonard Cohen · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141027562
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«Book of Longing» is Leonard Cohen's poetry collection, published by Penguin in 2007 in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Cohen's first poetry collection since Book of Mercy, it brings together verses written from the 1980s to the present during his stays in Montreal, Bombay, and Mount Baldy. It includes the author's drawings, with numerous self-portraits, and combines amorous longing and spirituality with ironic humor and a lucid gaze on desire.
For readers of contemporary poetry and fans of Leonard Cohen, both for his literary work and his musical career.
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time.
