I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062096913 (0062096915)
Publish date: September 18th 2012
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Three and a half stars.It must be being enormously frustrating to write a biography about a man who already has been quite confessional and intimate in his own poems, novels and songs. I mean, what else is there to say? But Sylvie Simmons' biography of Leonard Cohen does tend to open some new ground...
I started reading Cohen's poetry when I was in high school, but I had no conception of him as a musician. It took me till I was in my early 20s to fall in love with his music, with his voice. At that time I was falling in love with a great many people and things. Leonard is still with me, unlike mos...