A review by barnesstorming
The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings by Leonard Cohen

3.0

It's a posthumous poetry collection, and as such it's a bit messy -- with some of the works coming from Cohen's last two albums, some coming from unfinished notebook sketches, and one even coming from an email exchange. It's also sometimes repetitive, with finished versions of the unfinished works both appearing. But when he's on, he's on, and some of the poems rank among his best, most chilling dissections of love, age, and death.