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Index

Praise For the French Edition Dedication Prologue

First Point of Entry

The Prophet of Gravity The Art of Falling From High Bodhisattva, Act 1 This High and No Higher The Cosmic Joke

Second Point of Entry

Untraced Journeys Profession: Wandering Jew Host of Hotels, Host of Emptiness Quo Vadis, Leonard? The Triple Calling of the World All Jewish Heroes At Once

Third Point of Entry

Kamasutras and Razor Blades The Science of the Heart Groundwork For a Metaphysics of the Heart The Songwriter As Kabbalist

Chapter 1: Genesis

Leonard Cohen’s Face Before He Was Born Synopsis: the Life of the Double The Biographer’s Vertigo Kosher Paradise and Leonard’s Tricycle A Prophet’s Childhood: Dramatis Personae A Prophet’s Childhood: Setting and Characters The Dog Kelef and Buddha Nature Jewish Dialectics and Double-Breasted Suits Nine Years Old Hypnosis and Flamenco: Nothing Special Every Inch of You In the Beginning Was the Jukebox This Broken Feeling Birth of a Poet

Chapter 2: The Poet and Collector of Exiles

Saints and Avant-Gardes Montreal Poets/A Stylist Is Born Enter Irving L. Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) New York, New York Hipster, Lover, Saint: In Search of the Beat Jazz Poet The Heist and the Great Escape London 1960: “Too Early For the Rainbow” Happy As Leonard In Hydra/The Greek Miracle Marianne or the Necessary Angel You Say You Want a Revolution

Chapter 3: TV Tzadik and Pop Poetry

Rimbaud and the Rabbis: the Spice-Box of Earth Opium and the Shape of Clouds Portrait of the Artist As a Young Egoist: the Favourite Game (1963) Poet of the Mass Media Mr. Cool Cohen & Co. Flowers For Hitler Pop Poetry and TV Tzadik Well Looks At Donkey, Donkey Looks At Well The Hallucinated Masterpiece: Beautiful Losers (1966) Leonard Plays Icarus Can I Borrow Your Wings?

Chapter 4: Angels In Ember and Snow

The Howling City The Poet, His Women, His Rooms Metaphysics of the Hotel Room (or How to Be Part of the Furniture) Saying Goodbye a Thousand Times The Drunken Hotel Celestial Hierarchies and Adventures In Elevators Suzanne How to Sleep With an Angel A Pilgrim In Manhattan Sisters of Mercy She’s a Femme Fatale Imaginary Satori: the Physical Laws of the Universe

Chapter 5: A Troubadour In Manhattan

A Tragicomic Season Songs of Leonard Cohen: Autopsy of a Spell The Troubadour of ’60s Heroines The Original Trauma Année Érotique London Calling

Chapter 6: Into the Avalanche

The Infusion of Darkness: a Portrait of Leonard Cohen As Alt-Rocker Redneck Connection: Is It Rolling, Bob? Notes From a Black Square — Songs From a Room (1969) The Existentialist Troubadour Bird On the Wire Salvation Through Despair Elevator For Suzanne Jewish Cowboy Goes to Nashville Ecce Leonardo Tour of 1970: a Poet On Stage Jeanne D’arc, C’est Moi The Isle of Wight and the Theology of Fire Songs of Love and Hate (1971) — an Anti-Hippie Textbook The Inner Avalanche Sister Joan, Brother Fire Famous Blue What? Turning Darkness Into Light (Tour of 1972, Act I) And Fiat Fiasco (Tour of 1972, Act II) Exit the Poet

Chapter 7: Leonardo Furioso

Ready For War The Energy of Slaves (1972) The Misogynist Samurai Leonard’s Grand Guignol Why So Much Hatred? The Slave of Two Suzannes Kippur Kidnapping a Producer New Skin For the Old Ceremony (1974): As Below, So Above Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus J’accuse The Heavenly Canary (Tour of 1974) Across Europe In a Black Beret (Tour of 1976) Against the Tide

Chapter 8: Death and Redemption of A Ladies’ Man

230L.A. Blues Wagner In Malibu Death of A Ladies’ Man : Act I The Impossible Book (Death of A Ladies’ Man, Act II) “Fuck This Book and Fuck This Marriage” Cohen vs. Cohen God Enters Stage Left Love’s Labour’s Lost Recent Songs and Smokey Lives (1979) Gone Like the Smoke The Infinite Lightness of the Crooner Last Year’s Man I Am the Passenger (Tour of 1979)

Chapter 9: The Crooner’s Prayers

Purgatorio The Hundred-Foot Pole Out of the Hiatus A Dybbuk In the Luberon Redemption: the User’s Manual — Book of Mercy (1984) The Cheater’s Prayer The Order of the Unified Heart Angels and Casio Keyboards Kamasutra Chameleon: Various Positions (1985) Hallelujah Eureka Broken Prayers and Country Rags No Good Leonard Am I a Hotel? Tailored Suits and Deadpan Jokes The Black Swan (1985 Tour) Two Samurai In Paris

Chapter 10: Banana Casanova

A Philosopher At the Head of the Army Leonard’s Blitzkrieg The Spy Who Came From the Grave Terrorist Chic Moses Revisited The Signifying Banana New Wave Troubadour Ironic, Moi? Prisoner of Angels Electronic Geometries The Thousand Faces of Gravity (Tour of 1988)

Chapter 11: The Crooner’s Prophecies and The Apocalypse For Laughs

Profession: Stowaway Back In the City of Angels Acute Cohenitis The Future (1992): Uses and Refractions of the Apocalypse The Stand-Up Prophet: Crooning In the Rain Love Actually Tour of 1993: Across the World In a Sherman Tank

Chapter 12: Waiting For the Miracle

The Magic Mountain Have You Eaten? Then Wash Your Bowl Beware of the Fox Crazy Wisdom Hospital of Desire The Photogenic Monk Last Panic Attack Before Awakening Ramesh

Chapter 13: Fedora Bodhisattva

A Man Changed Into an Angel Ten New Songs (2001): Leonard’s Double Life Birth of a Buddhist Cool Paradise Exists: It’s an Electro Beat The Heather Mystery (2004) Judas, L.A. Style Book of Longing (2006): “My Shabby Little Story” Pedagogy of Desire Under Desire Laughter and Gravity Hidden In the Public Square Tour of 2008: Dramaturgy of Paradise Angelophany In Liverpool Old Ideas and New Visions

Chapter 14: Evidence of Darkness

Popular Problems Public Wars, Private Wars Pop Paradise The Shoeshiner and the Alchemist Thunder 1033 South Tremaine Avenue Flirt At Dusk The Passion of Angel Leonard Far More Real Than You Discourse On the Method The Paradox and the Lullaby Back to Black Smokey Life, Schmokey Life The Celestial Corleone Noir Realism In Hineni, Hallelujah Too Sexy For My Kaddish Nights Clearer Than Days Thought By Thought Lux Aeterna My Only Friend, the End

Epilogue

From Leonard Cohen to Christophe Lebold and Back

Acknowledgements Notes

Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Epilogue

Selective Discography

Studio Albums Live Albums Compilation Albums Side Projects

Bibliography

Original Works By Leonard Cohen (In Chronological Order) Biographical Works Documentary Movies Radio and TV Interviews (In Chronological Order) Press Articles and Interviews Critical Books and Articles On Leonard Cohen Philosophy, Literature, Psychanalysis, and Cultural Studies Christian Sources Judaism Zen Buddhism and Eastern Thought

Index

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Titles

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Photographs About the Author Copyright

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