Book of Longing

About this book

"Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing - his first book of poetry in more than twenty years - during his five-years stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unnexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition".