The Flame

I loved this book like nothing else. I carried it with my everywhere for weeks after finishing it, I even wrote notes in the book (a sin by my standards) but I did it because I loved this work so much. I read it at work, I read it before sleeping and I read it over and over.

As always Leonard Cohen has a type of poetic music that is in all of his words. Not a word seems out of place or wasted. Each page flows into the next with such ease. Shout out to that 1990 Christian Slater film for introducing me to Cohen when I was 14.

Beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking in exactly the ways you would expect it to be. This wasn't the grand statement on life and death that some might have hoped it to be, given its posthumous publication, but it's a welcome and appreciated part of Roshi Cohen's work nonetheless.