Book of Longing

Author: Leonard Cohen

An iconic poetry collection from American luminary Leonard Cohen, containing some of his most significant verseLeonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984’s Book of Mercy—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California’s Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzlin….Read More

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