Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Published with Art Gallery of Ontario. Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. ...
KAWS: FAMILY
A lavishly illustrated tour of the methods, process and sources behind the iconic pop artworks of KAWS Published with Art Gallery of Ontario. American artist KAWS is one of the most famous living contemporary artists today. Renowned for his iconic visual language and larger-than-life sculptures, the artist draws on beloved pop culture icons to create a new and recognizable cast of characters of his own. The broad appeal of KAWS’ style has made his artwork accessible to collectors, museum visitors and the general public alike, and has led to collaborations with coveted global brands and immense commercial success. KAWS: FAMILY, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, marks the artist’s Canadian institutional exhibition debut with an array of his drawings, paintings, sculptures and selected products. The catalog features over 60 works from the past two decades, including installation photography; essays by Julian Cox, AGO Deputy Director and Chief Curator; and an interview
Road to Freedom
The direct action social protest movement of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in sit-ins, marches, and other showdowns with armed police officers and National Guardsmen. Trained in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s methods of nonviolence, young black men a...
Stranger Music
Leonard Cohen's legacy is that of one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work - including the legendary songs 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The ...
Let Us Compare Mythologies
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a youn...
Book of Mercy
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuiti...
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
In the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including the legendary songs 'Suzanne,' 'Sisters of Mercy,' 'Bird on a Wire,' 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' 'I'm Your Man,' and 'The Future'; selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems. This volume demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.
Dance Me to the End of Love
In 1995, Welcome Books published the star of its "Art and Poetry" series, "Dance Me to the End of Love", a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse...
Favourite Game
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. 'Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to rev...
Let Us Compare Mythologies
A facsimile edition of the mid-twentieth-century artist and poet's first collection of poetry, published to commemorate its fiftieth anniversary, features original cover art, typography, and illustrations. By the author of Book of Longing.
Beautiful Losers
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character's attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint.
Ballet of Lepers
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR Before 'Hallelujah', 'Suzanne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the young Leonard Cohen was a gifted writer of prose. In this previously unpublished work, readers will discover the magic that animated Cohen's unique voice w...
Ballet of Lepers
An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen. Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before 'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous...
A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before Leonard Cohen's worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like 'Hallelujah,' 'Suzanne,' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat' first ventured into writing in his early twenties, and in A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohen's imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or
Book Of Longing
Book Of Longing [Bok / Pocket]
Book of Longing
Brings together a new collection of poetry and original line drawing illustrations by the acclaimed author of Stranger Music and Book of Mercy. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Leonard Cohen for Easy Piano
(Easy Piano Composer Collection). A dozen of Cohen's most loved tunes arranged for easy piano with lyrics, including the iconic 'Hallelujah' as well as: Bird on the Wire (Bird on a Wire) * Dance Me to the End of Love * Everybody Knows * Famous Blue Raincoat * The Future * Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye * I'm Your Man * So Long Marianne * Suzanne * A Thousand Kisses Deep * Waiting for the Miracle.
Beautiful Losers
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Revolving around four central - and intrinsical...
Electric Motors in the Home Workshop
The author's earlier book Electric Motors (Workshop Practice Series No. 16) described the basic principles of operation and methods of application of the wide range of motor types likely to be encountered in small scale engineering. This book prov...
Electric Motors
This book deals with principles and characteristics of the wide range of motor types likely to be useful in small engineering workshop applications. It also covers matters such as speed control, electric braking, generators, installation and safet...
Supper
Supper is a show-stopping collection of Flora Shedden's best-loved recipes for transforming the often-mundane dining-in experience into something worth staying in for. For a super-easy mid-week dinner, why not try Ginger Noodles with Chilli Oil, r...
Aran
aran (Scottish Gaelic) From the Old Irish arán Noun bread, loaf (masculine noun, nominative case) Aran is a beautiful cookbook from an artisan bakery in the heart of Scotland with the same name. In it, Great British Bake Off star Flora Shedden sha...
