The image of the flame flickers throughout this collection: “sometimes the light of a firefly, sometimes the light of a furnace”, as he writes in his notebooks. If the emotional range is astonishing, the geographical reach is wide, too: Cohen ranges from winter on Mount Baldy in California to the lift of the Manchester Malmaison Hotel He would rigorously meditate to “focus his mind through the acute pain of multiple compression fractures and the weakening of his body”. This final book became “his sole breathing purpose at the end”, and compiling it before he died two years ago was no mean feat. Melmoth by Sarah Perry, review: The Essex Serpent’s creator is back with a Gothic chiller His first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, published in 1956, was followed by 12 more books, including two novels. Although Cohen gained global acclaim as a singer-songwriter, his core vocation, says his son, was as a poet.
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