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  Beautiful Losers (Vintage)

  by Leonard Cohen

  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... (more)
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  Book of Longing

  by Leonard Cohen

  Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the legendary writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is his dazzling new collection of poetry -- twenty years in the making -- written on southern California's Mount Baldy and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. Following his highly acclaimed 1984 publication, Book of Mercy , and... (more)
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  Leonard Cohen (Kill Your Idols Series)

  by David Sheppard

  The consort of Janis Joplin and Rebecca De Mornay and one-time collaborator of Phil Spector, Leonard Cohen has for the last five years been a full-time resident of the Mount Baldy Zen Center near Los Angeles where he submitted to the rigors of zazen and communal living. He was officially ordained a Buddhist monk and given the name of Jikan (Silent One). Born in Montreal in 1934, Cohen received international... (more)
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  The Energy of Slaves

  by Leonard Cohen

  It's awfully hard making poetry out of paranoia ("The killers that run/the other countries/ are trying to get us/ to overthrow the killers/ that run our own") or narcissism ("Come down to my room/ I was thinking about you/ and I made a pass at myself") or even out of what perhaps may be truth ("I am no longer at my best practicing/ the craft of verse/ I do better/ in the cloak-room with Sara"). So it's jolly good,... (more)
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  Death of a Lady's Man

  by Leonard Cohen

  Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. He received his B.A. from McGill University and pursued graduate studies in English at Columbia University. Soon thereafter, he returned to Montreal and worked in his family’s clothing business while he continued to write poetry. His artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies . He has published nine collections of poetry, most... (more)
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  Spice-box of Earth

  by Leonard Cohen

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  The Short Writings of Tom Robbins

  by Tom Robbins

  Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s , from Playboy to the New York Times . Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original. Whether rocking with the Doors,... (more)