January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Dear Mailer / don’t ever fuck with me” If Leonard Cohen’s “Kanye West Is Not Picasso” Is A Diss Poem; What Is “Dear Mailer”?
January 18, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “One of the images I had of myself came from reading Chinese poetry… There was a kind of solitary figure in some of those poems by Li Po and Tu Fu. A monk sitting by a stream.” Leonard Cohen’s Foreshadowing Of His Time As A Zen Monk
January 18, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I remember reading a book by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge or something, and thinking ‘This whole vision is taken from Beautiful Losers.'” Leonard Cohen
January 17, 2022January 18, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Louis Dudek is a legend for me” Leonard Cohen
January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “If Roshi had been a professor of Astrophysics at Heidelberg I would have learned German and studied Astrophysics. I was interested in the man and I still am.” Leonard Cohen Focuses On The Person Not His Subject
January 17, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I wanted to be that kind of minor poet whose book – whose song – would be found by somebody like myself and cherished in some kind of way… The chain that binds the generations one to another would be secure. I would just live through that kind of discovery.” Leonard Cohen
January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Anything that has a life and death sound to it is a song.” Leonard Cohen On The Elements Of A Song
January 16, 2022January 18, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I would scan somebody’s work… and I’d see the work in probably a very superficial way, but with a certain kind of hungry eye, and I would seize on things that became very important.” Leonard Cohen Describes His Reading Method
