The Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Cohen with red "Order of the Unified Heart" stamp on title page. Octavo, 232 pages, black cloth with red end bands. Dust jacket features Cohen's own art, as does the interior. A beautiful copy of a Cohen classic: "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." More photos, or video, available on request.
Synopsis
Book of Longing is the first new poetry book by Leonard Cohen since 1984's Book of Mercy. First published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart, Book of Longing contains 167 previously unpublished poems and drawings, mostly written at a Zen monastery on Mount Baldy in California, where Cohen lived from 1994 to 1999, and in India, which he visited regularly during the late 1990s.
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- Bookseller
- Paper Birch Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PB-0005
- Title
- The Book of Longing
- Author
- Leonard Cohen
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2006
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Literature;
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