{"id":4093,"date":"2018-09-28T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2018-09-28T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:19:04","slug":"the-poetry-of-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2018\/09\/the-poetry-of-leonard-cohen.html","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HE was born before Elvis, had his songs covered by everyone from Judy Collins to the Pixies, and managed five decades of brilliant work in a field that tends to see only bright flares. Leonard Cohen is known as a more-or-less rock musician to most of us, but he started out as a poet, publishing books for a decade before his debut LP.<\/p>\n

The other day I met Cohen’s son, Adam, to discuss his father’s posthumous book of poetry and lyrics, The Flame, which comes out next week. There is a LOT of good work in here and it reminded me of Cohen’s genius and many contradictions. In any case, HERE<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\u00a0is my story in the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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