Fifteen Poems (A Vintage Short)
This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings.<br /><br />Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him an internationally revered figure. These fifteen poems, including “Death of a Lady’s Man,†“On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,†and “The Embrace,†are drawn from across his remarkable career and appear here for the first time with his illustrations. With its lyrical intensity and sensual immediacy, <i>Fifteen Poems</i> offers a potent distillation of the genre-crossing genius of one of the most admired artists of our time.