Leonard Cohen's Final Poetry Book Gets Release Date
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen's final book of poetry  The Flame  will be published in October 2018  the Guardian reports.  Cohen  finished  the book  just months before  his  death  in November 2016  at age 82.
The collection will include mostly new material  according to the publisher  Canongate.  Cohen 's former manager and the trustee of  his  estate  Robert Kory  said in a statement that completing The Flame was one of the artist's main objectives prior to his death. He culled material from unpublished poems  selections from his notebooks that commented on "the flame and how our culture threatened its extinction " said Kory.
 Cohen  pursued a career as a poet and novelist before turning to music.  His  first book  Let Us Compare Mythologies  came out in 1956  followed by The Spice-Box of Earth (1961) and Flowers for Hitler (1964).  His  first album as a singer-songwriter came out in 1967  when  he  was in  his  early thirties.
In addition to prose pieces  illustrations and intimate sections of  his  notebooks  The Flame will include the full lyrics of  his  three final albums and lyrics  he  wrote for Blue Art  by frequent collaborator  Anjani  Canongate said.
[TGT]  final book of poetry  The Flame  will be published in October 2018  the Guardian reports.   [TGT] finished  the book  just months before   [TGT]   death  in November 2016  at age 82.
The collection will include mostly new material  according to the publisher  Canongate.   [TGT]  's former manager and the trustee of  his  estate  Robert Kory  said in a statement that completing The Flame was one of the artist's main objectives prior to his death. He culled material from unpublished poems  selections from his notebooks that commented on "the flame and how our culture threatened its extinction " said Kory.
  [TGT] pursued a career as a poet and novelist before turning to music.   [TGT]   first book  Let Us Compare Mythologies  came out in 1956  followed by The Spice-Box of Earth (1961) and Flowers for Hitler (1964).  His  first album as a singer-songwriter came out in 1967  when  he  was in  his  early thirties.
In addition to prose pieces  illustrations and intimate sections of  his  notebooks  The Flame will include the full lyrics of  his  three final albums and lyrics  he  wrote for Blue Art  by frequent collaborator  Anjani  Canongate said.