2018年11月7日 星期三

Leonard Cohen：:Notebooks, “Drank a Lot”. A Broken Hallelujah: A wonderful biography exploring Leonard Cohen's life, work and passion.Book of Looking By Leonard Cohen and others 渴望之書 及其他



“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
―from BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (1966)

Leonard Cohen, who died on this day two years ago, was never without a notebook. He preferred the ninety-nine-cent-store variety, and he often worked on the same pages over many years in different colors of ink.
Singer, poet and novelist Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on this day in 1934.
"What I'm Doing Here" BY Leonard Cohen
I do not know if the world has lied
I have lied
I do not know if the world has conspired against love
I have conspired against love
The atmosphere of torture is no comfort
I have tortured
Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
Like an empty telephone booth passed at night
and remembered
like mirrors in a movie palace lobby consulted
only on the way out
like a nymphomaniac who binds a thousand
into strange brotherhood
I wait
for each one of you to confess
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A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on the Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” and “I’m Your Man” and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy. READ an excerpt from the foreword here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/poems-and-songs-by-le…/



Leonard Cohen 1934~2016 - Wikipedia



As Leonard Cohen turns 80, a new biography by Liel Leibovitz explores the life, work and passion of the poet-turned-musician. What makes Cohen such an enduring international figure in the cultural imagination?
Granted extraordinary access to Cohen's personal papers, Leibovitz evokes a complicated, sometimes contradictory figure. Born into a Canadian religious Jewish family, for years a reclusive lyricist on the Greek island of Hydra, known for his bold political commentary, his devotion to Buddhist thought and his later despair over contemporary Zionism, Cohen hardly follows the rules of a conventional rock star.
An intimate look at a man who, despite battles with depression and years spent in hermit-like isolation, is still touring and now seems to be reaching a new peak of popularity.
Read by Julian Barratt, with Leonard Cohen quotes read by Colin Stinton.
Abridged by: Jo Coombs
Producer: Pippa Vaughan
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4.



A wonderful biography exploring Leonard Cohen's life, work and passion.

渴望之書

Book of Longing







渴望之書

內容簡介

《美麗失敗者》作者最真摯動人的繪本詩集，
菲利普．格拉斯費時6年為本書譜曲，
全書中英對照，內含同名音樂會歌詞！
向大師致敬，邀集藝文名家傾心合譯：
　　李三沖、林蔚昀、周月英、臥斧、張照堂、張世倫、郭品潔、楊澤、詹宏志、詹偉雄、廖月娟、黎煥雄、鍾永豐、鴻鴻、尉遲秀。(依姓氏筆劃排列)
　　《渴望之書》的情感是跨越國界的。這些詩是李歐納．柯恩在南加州伯地山的禪修中心，在洛杉磯、蒙特婁，在孟買寫的，距他上一本詩集的出版已經超過二十個年頭。這本燦爛動人的詩集同時收錄了詩人頑皮挑釁的畫作，這些作品和玄思冥想、無始無終卻又隱隱透露著晦暗幽默的詩作相映成趣。
　　極限音樂巨匠菲利普．格拉斯(Philip Glass)，和「搖滾樂界的拜倫」、加拿大籍詩人歌手李歐納．柯恩(Leonard Cohen)，兩位當代最重量級的藝術家醞釀多年，首次以柯恩2006年發表的詩畫集《渴望之書》為名，掀起跨界合作的話題。格拉斯以六年的時間，為柯恩的22首詩譜曲，運用四位歌者與小型樂團的編制，融合柯恩過去20年來的插畫投影，成為一場文學、視覺與音樂相互交合的盛宴。本書完整收錄台灣藝術節《渴望之書》亞洲首演，中英歌詞對照收藏之用。
作者簡介
李歐納．柯恩（Leonard Cohen）
1934年出生於加拿大蒙特婁。
　　詩人。他於22歲出版第一本詩集《讓我們比擬神話》（Let Us Compare Mythologies）。2007年，加拿大的Ecco出版社發行「復刻本」紀念這本詩集問世50年。
　　小說家。1966年發表《美麗失敗者》，書評家盛讚：「喬伊斯還在人間，他以柯恩之名在蒙特婁生活，他以亨利．米勒的角度書寫。」
　　歌手∕詞曲創作者。他寫的歌被各界歌手翻唱，至今已有300張以上的音樂專輯收錄，僅以翻唱〈哈雷路亞〉一曲的專輯為例，銷量已超過500萬張CD。
　　柯恩自70年代開始修禪。1994年起，他隱居在伯地山禪修中心，1996年剃度出家成為禪宗和尚，法號「自閒」。1999年還俗下山。
　　2008年初夏，74歲的柯恩重回舞台，在歐洲巡迴演唱，偶爾低吟他的詩句。他說：「我上次在這裡，是14年前，那時我60歲，只是個懷抱瘋狂夢想的孩子。」2009年，他流浪的腳步已經踏上澳洲。
　　李歐納．柯恩至今出版9本詩集、2本小說、17張音樂專輯。他的作品，在世即為經典。



NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun.

NASA最新探査機が打ち上げに成功、太陽への「最接近」目指す


 The Sun By  Leonard Cohen









COHENCENTRIC.COM

Leonard Cohen: Dance Me To The End Of Love Arose From Photo Of Concentration Camp Musicians - Cohencentric: Leonard Cohen Considered

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This is a song that arose from a photograph that I saw when I was a child of some people in striped pajamas prison uniforms with violins playing beside a smoke stack and the smoke was made out of gypsies and children, and this song arose out of that photograph: Dance Me To The End Of Love.quotedown2
Leonard Cohen

From Leonard Cohen’s introduction to Dance Me To The End Of Love at the April 10, 1988 Koln concert. The photo is not, of course, the one described by Cohen but does show prisoner musicians at Camp Mauthausen.
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A new poem by the late Leonard Cohen.


NEWYORKER.COM

Leonard Cohen: “Drank a Lot”
“We cry for help, as humans do— / Before the truth, and after.”


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