![]() ![]() Li Po and Tu Fu are the latest entries to the Authors Leonard Cohen Admired Without Denoting A Specific Work section of the Leonard Cohen Reading List, a compilation of books read by the Canadian singer-songwriter. ![]() Find more information about these Chinese poets at Li Po & Tu Fu. It just seemed completely natural.įrom He Has Tried in His Way to Be Free by Sarah Hampson (Lion’s Roar: Nov 1, 2007). So those images in those poems had their effect, and thirty years later, I found myself in robes and a shaved head sitting in a meditation hall. There was a notion of solitude, a notion of deep appreciation for personal relationships, friendships, not just love, not just sensual or erotic or the love of a man or a woman, but a deep longing to experience and to describe friendship and loss and the consequences of distance. There was a kind of solitary figure in some of those poems by Li Po and Tu Fu. ![]() Mainly because I think we develop images of ourselves quite early on, and certainly one of the images I had of myself came from reading Chinese poetry at a very young age. I never felt I was going off on a tangent. Cohen, the sexual bad boy who becomes a monk. Cohen, the novelist, the poet, the songwriter. There’s Cohen, the son of a prominent Montreal clothier and the grandson of a Jewish scholar. It is often said that Cohen is hard to define. ![]()
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