![]() ![]() in Westmount, just a couple of streets from where Cohen grew up on Belmont Ave. And that was despite spending parts of her youth at her father’s house on Cedar Ave. ![]() Université de Sherbrooke professor and Montreal native Pleshoyano came to her role in The Flame via an unconventional route: she’s the first to admit she got out of the Cohen blocks uncommonly late. Photo by 2018 Old Ideas LLC / McClelland & Stewart Many self-portraits were chosen for the book, including one of Leonard Cohen looking heavily pomaded â Ã la Iâm Your Man. He frequently claimed that nothing made him happier than the act of leaving a previously white page “blackened” with his poetry and prose. It’s a truth underlined further by Adam Cohen, whose introduction tells how, for his father, the book “was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.”Īnd it all chimes with the artist himself. ![]() Even when there were long gaps (between albums and books), he was always, always writing.” “But it was that way all his life, really. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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