The flame cohen7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() That’s about it for me,” he told the magazine’s editor David Remnick. “I don’t dare attach myself to a spiritual strategy. In an interview with the New Yorker last October, Cohen spoke of how “my natural thrust is to finish things that I’ve begun”, and of how he was getting up well before dawn to write. ![]() This book, finished only days before his death, reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire.” Those of us who had the rare privilege of spending time with him during this period recognised that the flame burned bright within him to the very end. “Though in declining health, Leonard died unexpectedly. ![]() The flame and how our culture threatened its extinction was a central concern,” said Kory. “During the final months of his life, Leonard had a singular focus – completing this book, taken largely from his unpublished poems and selections from his notebooks. By the late 60s, he was concentrating more on music, releasing his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, in 1967.Ĭohen’s manager and trustee of his estate Robert Kory said that pulling The Flame together had been a key ambition for the singer-songwriter at the end of his life. ![]() Cohen, who died at the age of 82, originally focused his career on poetry, publishing the collections Let Us Compare Mythologies in 1956, The Spice-Box of Earth in 1961, and Flowers for Hitler in 1964. ![]()
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