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Book of longing

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    Narrator: the author
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Cohen, Leonard
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    Summary:

    Leonard Cohen wrote this book of poems during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai.

    Contents:
    • Book of longing
    • My life in robes
    • His master's voice
    • Roshi at 89
    • One of my letters
    • You'd sing too
    • S.O.S 1995
    • When I drink
    • Better
    • Lovesick Monk
    • To a young nun
    • Other writers
    • Roshi
    • Medicine
    • True self
    • Collapse of Zen
    • Early morning at Mt. Baldy
    • Leaving Mt. Baldy
    • Dear Roshi
    • Luckiest man in the world
    • Party was over then too
    • This is it
    • This isn't China
    • Takanawa Prince Hotel bar
    • Seisen is dancing
    • Moving into a period
    • I never found the girl Just to have been one of them
    • My consort
    • Historic Claremont Village
    • Disturbed this morning
    • Body of loneliness
    • Face can be composed
    • All my news
    • You are right, Sahara
    • Early questions
    • Moon
    • Sweet time
    • Food tastes good
    • Fun
    • We are not convinced
    • Basket
    • I believe that you are standing
    • By the rivers dark
    • Love itself
    • You have loved enough
    • Thousand kisses deep
    • Split
    • If you are young
    • Alexandra leaving
    • These portraits are far behind my A Puerto Rican song
    • Boogie Street
    • A limited degree
    • A life of errands
    • Wish me luck
    • Mission
    • Religious statues
    • What did it
    • Cigarette issue
    • I miss my mother
    • Thousands
    • My baby wasn't there
    • Dusko's Taverna 1967
    • Unbecoming
    • Old automat on 23rd St.
    • Paris again
    • Too old
    • Beach at Kamini
    • During the day
    • Laughter in the Pantheon
    • Dear Diary
    • Cold
    • A magic cure
    • Truth of the line
    • Layton's question
    • If you knew
    • I wrote for love
    • Lorca lives
    • Mercy returns me
    • Tradition
    • Good Germans
    • If I could help you
    • A private gaze
    • Remote
    • Mist of pornography
    • Promise of a youthful shirt
    • Delay
    • Montreal afternoon
    • Reading to the Prime Minister
    • Need the speed
    • How could I have doubted
    • Voice dictating in a plane of Europe
    • Great event
    • Paris sky
    • Story thus far
    • Sweetest little song
    • Thing
    • Stanzas for H.M.
    • Why I love France
    • One of those days
    • Inner sweetness of the man
    • Falling in love with you
    • This book will beging to speak
    • On the path
    • My redeemer
    • First of all
    • Cross
    • Tired
    • Something from the early seventies
    • We will all be airbrushed
    • Butter dish
    • Argument
    • Much later
    • Another Christopher
    • Angry at 11 pm
    • You don't want to go out anymore
    • Separated
    • Angry at 11 pm
    • You don't want to go out any more
    • Third invention
    • My mother asleep
    • Robert appears again
    • My mother is not dead
    • Shirley
    • Best
    • Clockwork
    • Drunk is gender-free
    • Never mind
    • There is a moment
    • Nightingale
    • Faithless wife
    • Travelling light #31
    • Backyard
    • When I went out
    • Vibrant, but dead
    • Goal
    • Work in progress
    • For all my art ...
    • Opened my eyes
    • Correct attitude
    • Not a Jew
    • Titles
    • Puppets
    • This mood has nothing to do with you
    • Never once
    • Who do you really remember
    • This is the best way to do it
    • Looking away
    • Even some of my own
    • Oh and one more thing
    • Your heart
    • What baffled me
    • Wind moves
    • Sorrows of the elderly
    • Back in Montreal
    • Alone at last
    • Stunned and still not suffering
    • Taxes children lost pussy
    • Anything which refers
    • Jana thinks of John
    • My time
    • Looking through my dreams
    • So do you
    • Now in my room
    • Darkness enters
    • Suggestions
    • Jikan who pretended to be a poet
    • Even now
    • Another poet
    • Pardon me
    • Her friend
    • I guess it's better to start a war
    • It seemed the better way
    • Great divide
    • I am now able
    • Flow
    • My guitar
    • A note to the Chinese reader
    • We will not be staying
    • Faith
    • Here it is
    • Worried of course
    • There for you
    • A promise
    • Furthermore, you do not have
    • Report to R.S.B.
    • Irving and me at the hospital
    • Sit still
    • Still looking at the girls
    • Because of a few songs
    • Letters
    • Only one thing make him happy
    • Kitchen table
    • Gravity
    • Sun
    • Soon there will be no one
    • Road is too long
    • Go little book
    • Hospitality
    • Centre
    • Your relentless appetitie for new perspectives
    • Better to be lost
    • Inside our love
    • I copied time
    • But turn me on my side
    • Lamp in Room 3
    • Cheater
    • Flood.
    Genre:
    Music, Poetry
    Subject(s): 20th century | American Poetry | MUSIC / Lyrics | POETRY / American / General | POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
    Original Publisher: [New York], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781982648978, 9781982648985, 1982648988