The flame poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings Works. Selections Cohen, Leonard 1934-2016 creator author. Faggen, Robert editor. Pleshoyano, Alexandra 1962- editor. text Poetry. nyu 2018 2018 First American edition. monographic eng print viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm A collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death. "The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame 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.""--Jacket. Leonard Cohen ; edited by Robert Faggen and Alexandra Pleshoyano. Includes index. Cohen, Leonard 1934-2016 Cohen, Leonard 1934-2016 Canadian poetry 20th century Canadian poetry 20th century Canadian poetry LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals MUSIC / Lyrics POETRY / Canadian 1900-1999 fast PR9199.3.C57 A6 2018 811/.54 9780374156060 0374156069 2018026609 DLC 180601 20190422103942.0 in00004029249 eng