Book of Longing

HAPPY POETRY MONTH! april is national poetry month, so here come thirty floats! the cynics here will call this plan a shameless grab for votes. and maybe there’s some truth to that— i do love validation, but charitably consider it a rhyme-y celebration. i don’t intend to flood your feed— i’ll just post one a......more

“My time is running out and still I have not sung The great song The true song”--Leonard Cohen Charles Bukowski talks with Leonard Cohen about his book of poetry, Book of Longing. Both wrote a lot of books of poetry and fiction. Buk: Some nice pomes in there, Lenny! Not bad! I like the pictures, too, esp......more

This book. This beautiful, beautiful book. Damn, I’m glad I picked this up. I’ve never read such a wonderful combination of sensual reverie, raw but fading lust and something damn close to Zen enlightenment. Cohen is a good, perhaps great poet, but he was also a practicing Zen monk when he wrote the......more

Happy Poetry Month... And that is the longing And this is the book I listen to this book with the voice of the author himself... better than poetry is my poetry which refers to everything that is beautiful and dignified, but is neither of these itself I am not sure about this was an unabridged audio or not, th......more