 Reviews & Articles 39) The Link, Concordia University Independent Newspaper | Literary Arts, Summer 2006 |
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Air-condition your brain with The Link’s cool summer reads Cool as ice-9 by Laura Roberts [We're copying only part dedicated to Book of Longing.] Summer reading doesn't usually involve poetry, but then again, most poetry doesn't get reviewed by major newspapers or sound nearly as good when read aloud as Leonard Cohen's does. Book of Longing is dedicated to Cohen's mentor, Irving Layton, though most of the poems seem to be directed toward an unnamed woman. In "Looking Away," Cohen muses "you would look at me / and it never occurred to me / that you might be choosing / the man of your life." And who wouldn't choose to spend their life with this tragic poet, this man of mystery and beauty? Okay, some women are inherently rational and would want a man who is stable, dependable, solid... but those women would be missing out on everything. The rest of us will never believe Cohen when he writes lines like "Needless to say / I am one of the fakes, / and this is my story." Retrieved from http://thelink.concordia.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to Reviews & Articles. Welcome | Index | Works by Leonard Cohen | Reviews & Articles | Index of Titles / drawings, first lines & online poems | e-card | Credits & Thanks |
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