Before and alongside his career as a singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen published poetry and fiction shaped by desire, faith, loneliness, sex and spiritual doubt. The Favourite Game is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel about a young Montreal poet, while Beautiful Losers is a more experimental novel involving friendship, erotic obsession, Catholic history and the Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Poetry collections such as The Spice-Box of Earth, Book of Mercy and Book of Longing move between love poems, prayer-like pieces, self-mockery and meditations on ageing. Stranger Music gathers poems and song lyrics across several decades, and The Flame collects late poems, lyrics and notebook material. Cohen's literary writing is spare in places and deliberately fragmented in others. For literary readers, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers show the novelist; Book of Longing and Stranger Music give a broader route through the poetry and song writing. Read more Less
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