He would go on to publish a dozen more volumes of poetry, including Book of Longing, and two novels, The Favorite Game and Beautiful Losers. Soon after graduating from McGill University, he published his first collection of poems, Let Us Compare Mythologies, in 1956.
Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. Cohen’s son, Adam, writes in his foreword: “This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet … It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.” Below, we present a selection of images from the book. The Flame , published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is Cohen’s parting gift: a collection of poems, lyrics, drawings, and pages from his notebooks. Two years have passed since Leonard Cohen’s death on the eve of the 2016 American presidential election, and to no one’s surprise, the world remains steeped in the miserable mix of darkness and fleeting hope that the poet-songwriter articulated so well.
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