The blending of the earthy with the spiritual would give John Donne and Marvin Gaye a run for their money * * Guardian * * The Flame is a gift. Included in various proportions are love, sex, death, regret, exaltation, piety and gentle fondness. The Flame shows the emphasis that Cohen put on distillation. His gift for understated melancholia is on each blackening page * * Daily Mail, Best Books of 2018 * * We'll be listening to Cohen - still smirking and smiling - for decades to come, with this collection as our companion * * Spectator * * For his final publication, he left almost nothing to chance.
Encompassing poems and lyrics written in his last decade, as well as self-portraits and notebook extracts, the book is introduced by his son Adam Cohen * * Financial Times, Best Poetry Books of 2018 * * Cohen's enduring, beautiful bleakness is the draw here. Words are his old comrades, and see him through to the end - Kate Kellaway * * Observer, Poetry book of the month * * Cohen was a poet before he was a musician, and with this posthumous collection his career completes its circle. Leonard Cohen does not use language to pose, startle or reinvent. Full of youthful spark, beauty and romance. In the words of Cohen's longtime manager and friend, Robert Kory, The Flame "reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire" to the end.The last word in love and despair. Listeners will hear about the subjects that have always preoccupied Cohen: the dimensions of love, the secret code of existence, and the hope for transcendence in a broken world. In addition to new poems about war, desire, regrets, lamb chops, and hummingbirds, and lyrics from his last three albums, including the chart-topping "You Want It Darker," The Flame includes carefully selected excerpts from Cohen's voluminous notebooks, which he kept faithfully over the years. As noted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's citation, "For six decades, Leonard Cohen revealed his soul to the world through poetry and song-his deep and timeless humanity touching our very core." The Flame is Cohen's eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics and poems that maps his singular creative journey.
He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before his death This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogan, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani.
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