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. He is the author of twelve books, including, most recently, the national bestseller Book of Longing, and has released seventeen albums.
Johnathan McClain has appeared on numerous television series, including 24, Scoundrels, Medium, CSI, Law & Order: SVU, Without a Trace, and CSI: Miami, among others. He has also been heard as a contributor to the Public Radio International series Fair Game, and appears on the TV Land original series Retired at 35.
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
