火焰 – The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings by Leonard Cohen

一代传奇歌手莱昂纳德•科恩于2016年11月去世，在晚年接受《纽约客》的采访中，科恩说：“我已准备好去死了，只希望不要太难受。就这样了。”在科恩生命的最后时光中，他仅在做一件事情：从记录日常灵感的“笔记本”里将选出未发表的诗词整理成书。

在科恩生命的最后几年中，火焰是他强烈关注的思想和形象。科恩的诗句热烈、率真、不拘一格，将强烈的“火焰”意象呈现在世人面前，让我们有幸见证科恩生命之火的明亮之至。

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.

A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.

“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,” writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.”

Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,” in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”