Author: Leonard Cohen
Narrator: Johnathan McClain
Unabridged: 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/23/2018
Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal, in 1934. Soon after graduating from McGill University, he published his first collection of poems, Let Us Compare Mythologies, in 1956. He would go on to publish a dozen more volumes of poetry, including Book of Longing; two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers; and a posthumous collection of poems, drawings, lyrics, and drawings in The Flame. A hugely influential and critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, Cohen released fourteen studio albums between 1967 and 2016, the last being You Want It Darker, the title track of which posthumously won him the Grammy for Best Rock Performance. Cohen died in Los Angeles in November 2016.
Johnathan McClain is an American actor, voice-over talent, and Earphones Award–winning narrator. He pursued stage acting in New York for a number of years and has appeared in many television series, including Law & Order: SVU, Medium, Scoundrels, and CSI: Miami. He also has several narration credits, including Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series and Jeremy Logan novels by Lincoln Child.
This first book of poetry by Leonard Cohen presents us, sadly, with the melancholy, the intellectual trappings and the world-weariness of the 22 year old poet without the earthier and more personal expression of vulnerability, sensuality and desire which will mark the work to come. The undigested re......more
In the style of most men and poets, there are passages that make me want to put my hands on my hips and mutter, 'Touch grass, laddie'; at other times he writes something so well it's like he's unspooling a knot of my vague impression into ribbon.......more
Some poems hit, others didn’t. More classically structured than most poetry I read, but it was cool to see the influence of songwriting in some of these poems.......more
“A continuing point of reference for Cohen fans.” New York Review of Books
“As strong a poet as he is a musician…Cohen would still be highly thought of if he’d never written a song in his life but had stuck to writing his wry, ironic, tender verse.” Guardian (London), praise for the author
