Leonard Cohen's posthumous collection of poems, lyrics and sketches

The poems are monotonous scribbles of the moody-undergraduate school, what young Werther would have sung had he been Canadian

The Flame Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings | Author:

Leonard Cohen; Robert Faggen and Alexandra Pleshoyano (eds) | Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Price: $28 | Pages: 277

When a poet dies, his publishers often hurry into print whatever scraps lie stuffed in his desk drawers or overflow his wastebasket. This is the book business at its darkest and most human, but many balance sheets have been balanced by a posthumous work or two. Death is the moment when all eyes are upon the poet for the last time; beyond, for most harmless drudges, lies the abyss. Leonard Cohen, who