num_pages: 277
description: The Flame 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 The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately with wit and panache The Flame is a valedictory work.This volume contains my fathers final efforts as a poet writes Cohens son Adam Cohen in his foreword. It was what he was staying alive to do his sole breathing purpose at the end.Leonard 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.
language: English
title: The Flame
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux