Book Review: The Flame is an ode to the power of words to get under one's skin

Leonard Cohen's last volume of poems, The Flame, is an ode to the power of words to seduce, probe and get under one's skin. PHOTO: CANONGATE BOOKS
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POETRY / THE FLAME

By Leonard Cohen

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