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Some proficient poems here, a few made me express mirth, like the threat against Norman Mailer a
Leonard Cohen was a dandy singer, amazing stature on stage, great phonation and brilliant song writer. This is the first volume of poetry I've read past him and i've been surprised by just how insecure he was, at times he seems so lonely and at others he is doubting himself, including at ane point his voice! Wha??? He has one of the best sounding voices in music. It's amazing what a scrap of poetry can reveal nearly a person.Some good poems here, a few made me express mirth, like the threat against Norman Mailer and this ane:
"I did not know
until you walked away
yous had the perfect ass
Forgive me
for not falling in love
with your face or your conversation"
Some are incredibly dour:
"I could not look for y'all
to find me dead in a rented room
with my sunglasses dusty
on the card table
So again
I tried to set my pharynx on fire
this time in silence
and not thinking of you at all
(I had so much time to impale)"
This was a real good place to offset reading his poetry and I'll be checking out more. Here is my favourite from the book, shows what a rebel he was.
"Whatsoever arrangement you concoct without us
will be brought down
Nosotros warned you before
and cypher that y'all congenital has stood
Hear it as you lean over your blueprint
Hear information technology as you roll up your sleeve
Hear it once again
Whatsoever system you contrive without us
volition exist brought downwards
You have your drugs
You have your guns
You have your Pyramids your Pentagons
With all your grass and bullets
y'all cannot hunt the states any more than
All that we disclose of ourselves forever
is this alert
Naught that you built has stood
Any system yous contrive without us
will exist brought down"
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O rare and perfect creature
Who has made your nest in me
I'1000 on my way home to you
singing with the lips
you bloodied out of jealousy
I am your world
I am your wall
You are the last scorpion
Who never longed to be a man
Information technology is but in my heart
that you can dream
of your relentless invasion
of the sunlit plain
when you moved among the numberless
and a woman far more beautiful
than I am
was your invisible queen
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Why is it
I have zilch to say to you
Russian princess
in 1920 furs
coming down the steep steps
careful
O rare and perfect beast
Who has fabricated your nest in me
I'yard on my way abode to you
singing with the lips
y'all bloodied out of jealousy
I am your world
I am your wall
You are the last scorpion
Who never longed to be a man
It is simply in my heart
that you can dream
of your relentless invasion
of the sunlit plain
when you moved among the numberless
and a woman far more beautiful
than I am
was your invisible queen
- - -
Why is it
I take zippo to say to you
Russian princess
in 1920 furs
coming down the steep steps
careful of the ice
on Ave de L'Esplanade
You were extremely delicate
in your hold on beauty
and I cared so much
you wouldn't slip
that I had to kick y'all
downwards the stairs
just to savour
unemployment once again
- - -
I run into the ocean from my window
it is very slow
no whales today
no tidal wave
The fisherman fiddles
with his air conditioner
The sunset is slowly squashed
by the huge forces of night
I phone my married woman
We sentry information technology in each other's arms
the centre grows old
from touching others"
Beautiful and earnest as everything else he wrote.
The world is poorer without him.
both political and emotional... Cohen is personal as always
two of my favorite ones:
"All men please you
If you ever read this
call back of the man writing it
he hated the world on your behalf"
&
"Each man
has a manner to betray
the revolution
This is mine"
both political and emotional... Cohen is personal equally always
ii of my favorite ones:
"All men delight you
If you always read this
recollect of the human being writing it
he hated the world on your behalf"
&
"Each human being
has a fashion to betray
the revolution
This is mine"
It burns everyone
It disfigures anybody
Information technology is the world's alibi
for being ugly."
"I could not wait for you lot
to find me dead in a rented room
with my sunglasses dusty
on the card tabular array
So once again
I tried to set my throat on burn down
this time in silence
and non thinking of you at all
(I had and so much time to kill.) "
One reviewer wrote " These poems are angry and addicted to sex and sadness." and that's a solid summation of this work, and the writer'southward work as a whole. But in more particular I'
"Dearest is a fireInformation technology burns everyone
Information technology disfigures everyone
It is the world'southward alibi
for being ugly."
"I could not wait for you
to detect me dead in a rented room
with my sunglasses dusty
on the card table
So once once again
I tried to set my pharynx on fire
this time in silence
and non thinking of you at all
(I had so much time to impale.) "
One reviewer wrote " These poems are angry and addicted to sex and sadness." and that'south a solid summation of this work, and the writer's work as a whole. Only in more than particular I'd say...
Dark, cynical, concerned mainly with conflict of ane diversity or the other. Though a solid volume released between two of his best albums, Songs of Love and Hate and New Skin for the Old Ceremony, I can't aid simply get the impression that he released this as a drove of poems that, for one reason or the other, he didn't (or couldn't) translate to song. All of these poems have a debris like quality to them, similar they were either snipped from something else or simply merely half-finished. It's unlike Cohen to leave a poem underdeveloped, but at many points he references leaving both music and writing entirely, so perhaps we can lay some of the blame there. After all, he fifty-fifty hints (not too subtly) virtually the passion for his work dying, his inspiration drying upwardly.
Perhaps this is an odds-and-ends collection, or possibly it'due south a would-have-been final gasp. Either way, while far from the standard he gear up for himself the book is still worth iii stars, if for nothing more than than it'southward heavy darkest-night-of-the-soul atmosphere.
"Dear Mailer
don't always fuck with me
or come upwardly to me
and punch my gut
on behalf of 1 of your theories
I am armed and mad..."
Hmm. I'll give information technology three stars for at present. I might flip through it until information technology'
It's hard to rate and review this volume because of the tone of the poems. I get that information technology's meant to go dorsum and forth between "beautiful" and "deliberately ugly", simply I'g however not entirely sure that I liked information technology. Some of the more beautiful poems I liked, and I even liked some of the really bitter ones, but others were puzzling. It could be that at that place are some historical references I'thousand non getting, given the year it was written.Hmm. I'll requite it three stars for now. I might flip through information technology until information technology's due back at the library, so I tin better understand information technology.
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He did not wish to wait me in the optics
He ate in peace
Cohen is probably my favorite living poet/songwriter. I discover his vocalization sexy, although perhaps not musical.
Honey is a burn down
Information technology burns everyone
It disfigures everyone
It is the earth'due south excuse
for being ugly
Love is a burn down
It burns everyone
It disfigures everyone
It is the world'southward excuse
for existence ugly
I feel I'm hard to stun with words but there were a few moments here I had to reread.. Hoping they were fiction. Glad for the reflection. Some dark moments. Some bright vivid ones too.
I feel I'm hard to stun with words just in that location were a few moments hither I had to reread.. Hoping they were fiction. Glad for the reflection. ...more
This book feels more bitter than the other volumes of Cohen'due south poems. Some of the poems are both nighttime and ugly. Hope does shine through in odd places. Equally ever Cohen proves his talent with twisting words into an image no matter how repu
This is probably closer to a iii.v star read than a true 3 star read. I detect it'southward always hard to review poetry because what I don't enjoy someone else and so on. Poetry is subjective and sometimes you may dislike a volume at one reading so like it at another.This volume feels more bitter than the other volumes of Cohen'southward poems. Some of the poems are both dark and ugly. Hope does shine through in odd places. Every bit ever Cohen proves his talent with twisting words into an image no matter how repulsive that image may be.
It's not a collection that I would recommend to someone new to Cohen's work in whatsoever grade or even the casual Cohen fan. That said, it's possible to encounter the starting signal for some of his later piece of work - lyrically and otherwise.
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What's interesting to me is that I read this one in Cohen's vocalisation, and and so it was almost equally though I was listening to an unreleased album. All of the subject matters and themes are pretty typical of Cohen, with the result that this is a cracker of a volume that would exist a good introduction to his ouvre eve
I'yard a big fan of Cohen's, and that includes everything from his music to his poetry and his novels. This poetry collection was particularly fun, in part because he used the "C word" so many times.What'southward interesting to me is that I read this i in Cohen's voice, and and so it was almost every bit though I was listening to an unreleased album. All of the subject matters and themes are pretty typical of Cohen, with the result that this is a cracker of a book that would be a adept introduction to his ouvre fifty-fifty if you've never fifty-fifty heard his music. Yeah!
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The volume traverses across various avenues of obedience, self-isolation, resentments, clash and co-abode of ones's spiritual dimension and erotic alter ego.
Beingness an ardent Leonard Cohen acolyte, i did like this book ! A very diligent exploration of the uncomfortable ties betwixt a pupil and his teacher.
The book traverses across various avenues of obedience, self-isolation, resentments, disharmonism and co-dwelling of ones's spiritual dimension and erotic alter ego.
Being an agog Leonard Cohen acolyte, i did similar this book ! ...more
Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. The 1970s were a musically restless period in which his in
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian vocalist-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963.Cohen'due south earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. The 1970s were a musically restless flow in which his influences broadened to encompass pop, cabaret, and earth music. Since the 1980s he has typically sung in lower registers (bass baritone, sometimes bass), with accompaniment from electronic synthesizers and female backing singers.
His piece of work often explores the themes of religion, isolation, sexuality, and circuitous interpersonal relationships.
Cohen'southward songs and poesy have influenced many other singer-songwriters, and more than a thousand renditions of his work have been recorded. He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and is likewise a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation'south highest civilian honour. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Ringlet Hall of Fame on March x, 2008 for his status among the "highest and well-nigh influential echelon of songwriters".
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the heart grows old
from touching others"
to get to my kitchen table
the poem about me
lying there with the books
in which I am listed
among the dead and future Dylans"
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