{"product_id":"9781250234797","title":"The Flame : Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Leonard Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBEST SELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Fall Read by \u003ci\u003eVogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine. \u003c\/i\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2018.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on.” —BONO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Flame \u003c\/i\u003e is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, \u003ci\u003eThe Flame \u003c\/i\u003eis a valedictory work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,” writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,” in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you felt Leonard Cohen’s death in 2016 as a personal assault, this book is a posthumous balm . . . All of Cohen’s work has a raw, straight-to-the-heart intensity—reach for this the next time you need inspiration for a wedding toast that will leave them gutted, or any other moment you need a little sustenance for the soul.\" --\u003cb\u003eChloe Schama, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cohen's final volume shows his poetic soul. If you know the man only because of “Hallelujah” or “Suzanne,” pick up \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e and warm yourself within its pages.\" --\u003cb\u003eBethanne Patrick, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s clear that Cohen remained sharp until the very end, and the book, a kind of farewell tribute by the poet-prophet, offers ample evidence of his abiding sense of humor . . . Though he claimed not to know the origins of his poetry nor to be able to locate his mission, what Cohen offered his many fans and followers was the opportunity to partake of the kind of spiritual experience that makes it possible for us to feel, if only for a moment, that we are not alone.\" —\u003cb\u003eShoshana Olidort, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] grand book . . . elegant . . . Leonard Cohen does not use language to pose, startle or to reinvent. Words are his old comrades, and see him through to the end.\" --\u003cb\u003eKate Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e, an aging artist struggles with questions of death and legacy — and tries not to take them too seriously, true to his claim never to do so . . . If [this is] how long it takes to say ‘so long’ to someone beautiful, we’ll be listening to Cohen — still smirking and smiling — for decades to come, with this collection as our companion.\" \u003cb\u003e--Hannah Niemeier, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator \u003c\/i\u003e(U.K.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poignant and brave, lit up with flashes of anger, this is a luminous collection and classic Cohen.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cohen was a poet before he was a musician, and with this posthumous collection his career completes its circle.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Best Books of 2018)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Steeped in somber reckoning, \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e takes the long view that only age affords . . . Sprinkled with Cohen’s self-portrait sketches, \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e is full of gestures so intimate it’s almost a voyeuristic experience . . . The work feels both like a final speech and a disrobing. In perusing the sizeable volume, one can’t help but feel privy to something raw and shining, both uncomfortably and movingly revealing, the final laying-bare of a unique chronicler of the human heart.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Flame \u003c\/i\u003eis Cohen's last gift to us . . .Cohen’s radical honesty and wit became more refined and purified with each passing year . . .He magicked and mastered us after all, getting us to clamor for the bitter pill of his tender, scathing, suffering, beatific vision.\" --\u003cb\u003ePamela Erens, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Authentic and revelatory in ways that final novels and poetry collections are not.\" --\u003cb\u003eCharles Foran, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus \u003c\/i\u003e(Canada)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e provides fascinating insight into Cohen’s unique talent . . .  The entire collection is an intricate exploration of the happenings of the human heart, infused with Cohen’s signature themes of longing, love and loss . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e shows the great power of words to endure long after the person who has written them has passed away, and to offer relief from suffering and elevate the spirits – not only for the writer, but for the reader and listener, too.\" \u003cb\u003e--Anita Sethi, \u003ci\u003eiNews\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A kaleidoscopic archive, a mix-tape of emotions that reveals Cohen’s fears and vulnerability with an unusually raw candour. After 10 books of poetry and two novels, it reminds us that the music man who taught the world to scale the chords of \u003ci\u003eHallelujah\u003c\/i\u003e still considered writing his first and ultimate vocation . . . it seems Leonard Cohen has left enough words and music for us to carry on without him.\" \u003cb\u003e--Brian D. Johnson, \u003ci\u003eMacleans\u003c\/i\u003e (Canada)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leonard Cohen offers in \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of writing that stands proudly at the end of his body of work . . . Cohen’s poems emerge in \u003ci\u003eThe Flame\u003c\/i\u003e as compelling, mingling all the different mentioned themes with a sense of urgency that lurks just beyond their lightness and somewhat self-deprecating humour. It’s a balance that Cohen has always navigated well, that between seriousness and playfulness, intensity and lightness.\" —\u003cb\u003eElisa Sabbadin, \u003ci\u003ePendora \u003c\/i\u003e(Canada)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (2018), Long-listed Oprah.com Best Books of the Year (2018), Long-listed Financial Times Books of the Year (2018)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250234797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40706801303758,"sku":"9781250234797","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_83bec63e-0d6b-4069-91df-e156766264f2.jpg?v=1640578361","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250234797","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}