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Book of Mercy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust.
Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell, two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy - and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell, two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy - and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.
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Well .... I'm conflicted ...
- By Susannah on 10-02-18
By: Leonard Cohen
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Stranger Music
- Selected Poems and Songs
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums, Leonard Cohen gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. His status as a cult artist grew and solidified, all over the world. Now, Stranger Music brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry. Stranger Music reveals the range and depth of Cohen's work. It is a long-overdue celebration of his extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion, and timelessness.
By: Leonard Cohen
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Let Us Compare Mythologies
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was 22 years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20.
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Interesting Early Work Prefigures his Future Writing
- By Tom on 09-11-20
By: Leonard Cohen
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The Flame
- Poems and Notebooks
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen’s eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics and poems that maps his singular creative journey. As noted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s citation, “For six decades, Leonard Cohen revealed his soul to the world through poetry and song - his deep and timeless humanity touching our very core.”
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Surprisingly boring
- By Melissa S. on 04-02-23
By: Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
- By: Christophe Lebold
- Narrated by: Vlasta Vrana
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.
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as much an analysis as a biography
- By Judy on 10-05-24
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Book of Longing
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Leonard Cohen
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing - his first book of poetry in more than 20 years after 1984's Book of Mercy - during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection of poetry is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous.
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Cohen reading his own poetry is exquisite
- By Cheryl on 06-18-19
By: Leonard Cohen
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Beautiful Losers
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Bronson Pinchot, John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell, two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy - and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.
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Well .... I'm conflicted ...
- By Susannah on 10-02-18
By: Leonard Cohen
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Stranger Music
- Selected Poems and Songs
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Over the years, and through the release of more than a dozen studio albums, Leonard Cohen gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. His status as a cult artist grew and solidified, all over the world. Now, Stranger Music brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry. Stranger Music reveals the range and depth of Cohen's work. It is a long-overdue celebration of his extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion, and timelessness.
By: Leonard Cohen
-
Let Us Compare Mythologies
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was 22 years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20.
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Interesting Early Work Prefigures his Future Writing
- By Tom on 09-11-20
By: Leonard Cohen
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The Flame
- Poems and Notebooks
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen’s eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics and poems that maps his singular creative journey. As noted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s citation, “For six decades, Leonard Cohen revealed his soul to the world through poetry and song - his deep and timeless humanity touching our very core.”
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Surprisingly boring
- By Melissa S. on 04-02-23
By: Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
- By: Christophe Lebold
- Narrated by: Vlasta Vrana
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.
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as much an analysis as a biography
- By Judy on 10-05-24
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- shaun Murphy
- 03-13-22
As expected, Cohen is magnificent
As usual, Leonard Cohen masters with poetic skill. both a voice of epic stories and powerful moments. Cohen shows what a complex subject in the proper hands can do.
hats off to you maestro.
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- Cheryl
- 06-19-19
Narrator doesn’t do it justice
Oh, I wish it would have been recorded with the author reading it. His reading of Book of Longing weaves it’s way into your soul. The content is pure Cohen. The words create pictures, feelings, emotions.
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- Tom
- 12-24-20
Good modernization of Biblical Prayers.
A sincere outpouring of love and prayer in the Ancient Hebrew Tradition. “Study on a World without Me” says his Yahweh. I have and found it to be a satisfying, though challenging place. I’m happy to face the highs and lows of Life in this World without Him.
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- Dennis L. Myers Jr.
- 03-06-21
Love Leonard but I zoned out
I love Leonard Cohen’s albums, “Songs of Love and Hate” and “New Skin for the Old Ceremony,” but this lost me. While I’m sure this is deep in content, and sound in structure, I’ll be damned if I didn’t completely zone out in the throes of its second-person religiosity and start thinking about tomorrow’s laundry.
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- Bruce Cline
- 02-28-22
Disappointing
Poetry has the potential to enlighten, praise, celebrate, and so much more. Too often, though, it is impenetrable and obscure. Sadly, that is the case with this collection. Whatever meaning Cohen was trying to impart escaped me.
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