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20.June.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Poets Who Influenced Leonard Cohen

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Poets Who Influenced Leonard Cohen

“I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. I would haunt all the secondhand book shops in Montreal with this huge appetite for poetry. My two great heroes are WB Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.” He quotes from Lorca’s Song Of The Morning Market: “ Under…
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20.June.2012

WHEN I UNCOVERED YOUR BODY

When I uncovered your body
I thought shadows fell deceptively,
urging memories of perfect rhyme.
I thought I could bestow beauty
like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh
would answer to the prayer.
I thought I understood your face
because I had seen it painted twice
or a hundred times, or kissed it
when it was carved in stone. With only a breath, a vague turning,
you uncovered shadows
more deftly than I had flesh,
and the real and violent proportions of your body
made obsolete old treaties of excellence,
measures and poems,
and clamoured with a single challenge of personal beauty,
which cannot be interpreted or praised:
it must be met.

– The poem “When I Uncovered Your Body” from Fifteen Poems by Leonard Cohen published in ”VALENTINE’S DAY POEM: Canadian Poet, Songwriter, Artist Leonard Cohen: ‘When I Uncovered Your Body’,” Huntington News, February 14, 2012. (via leonardcohenminute)
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19.June.2012

leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen performing “The Butcher” in Toronto in 1975. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos and her Adam Cohen videos on her Channel. Other performances of “The Butcher” can be found on ...

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Leonard Cohen performing “The Butcher” in Toronto in 1975. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos and her Adam Cohen videos on her Channel.

Other performances of “The Butcher” can be found on the Speaking Cohen Channel.
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