English, World, Canada, Canadian, Leonard Cohen, Poetry, Collection, Languages

Sorrows of the Elderly by Leonard Cohen

By T.

25 September 2005

Sorrows of the Elderly
Leonard Cohen

The old are kind
but the young are hot.
Love may be blind
but Desire is not.

MARGINALIA

Thinking of things that are bad for me.

ABOUT LEONARD COHEN

Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs and Book of Longing. During a recording career that spanned almost fifty years, he released fourteen studio albums, the last of which, You Want It Darker, was released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and

… (more)