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Book of Longing
Book of Longing was the first new poetry book by Leonard Cohen since 1984's "Book of Mercy". First published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart, "Book of Longing" contains 167 previously unpublished poems and drawings, mostly written at a Zen monastery on Mount Baldy in California, where Cohen lived from 1994 to 1999, and in India, which he visited regularly during the late 1990s. The book also incorporates a number of poems written after his 1978 book, "Death of a Lady's
"Love and Strange Horses" won the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award), and was an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. The critically acclaimed "Poet in Andalucía" (2012) consists of “poems of depth and weight, and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve.”
The flash collection "The Republics" was called as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and is winner of the