First published 2018
Leonard Cohen completes his last creative work in the final period of his life. The celebrated poet and musician gathers poems, private notebook writings, song lyrics, and self-drawn portraits into a single volume. Cohen works with deliberate purpose, knowing his time grows short. His son Adam explains that creating this collection became Cohen's primary reason for staying alive in his final days. The pages reveal a mind still burning with creative fire despite advancing age and declining health. Cohen examines his decades of deep living with characteristic wit and style. Each piece of writing serves as proof of an artist who remained passionate about his craft until the end. The collection stands as Cohen's farewell statement, completed shortly before his death in late 2016.
Genres: poetry, biography-memoir, music, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: artist-life, farewell
Period: 2016
277 pages · Hardcover · Farrar, Straus and Giroux