The Flame: Leonard Cohen’s Final Book

Picked this up a few days ago and am loving it! I highly recommend it and, if you do get yourself a copy, be sure to read both the Forward and the Editorial Note — only a few pages but there are interesting tidbits in both. After those there is no further preamble, next page starts right into the first poem and right from the first stanza (below) you know this book is quintessentially Cohen.

I was always working steady

But never called it art

I was funding my depression 

Meeting Jesus reading Marx

Sure it failed my little fire

But it's bright the dying spark

Go tell the young Messiah

What happens to the heart