"William Wordsworth was turned on by daffodils; I'm turned on by women."

- Irving Layton

Hey Lizzy I wasn't at the Cohen event - guess I should have been. I'll know for the next one. There's a lot of insight to be derived from Cohen's poetry - you should get his books. I'm sure you'll like them as much as you do his music. Here's Summer Night : The moon dangling wet like a half-plucked ...

Is this from the poem "Saint Catherine Street"?

Towering black nuns frighten us
as they come lumbering down the tramway aisle...

Hi lil

Sounds like something from The Favourite Game, which would explain why you didn't get results in the Cohen Concordance, which I believe searches all Cohen's work besides that book.

This poem seems to be about the subjects' awkward attempt to find harmony with nature. They leave their plastic environment to appreciate the summer night but discover that their harmony and comfort is only with man-made amenities. They try to be naked but the stones they sit on and the stream they ...

At a certain point, when the Jews were first commanded to raise an altar, the commandment was on unhewn stone. Apparently the god that wanted that particular altar didn't want slick, didn't want smooth. He wanted an unhewn stone placed on another unhewn stone. Maybe then you go looking for stones t...

Beautiful Losers , page 167 in the latest edition, about 1/5 into A Long Letter from F.: - That's better, F. Your tongue was nice but you do better as a doctor. - All right, Edith. What seems to be the trouble now? - I can't make myself come any more. - Of course you can't. If we're going to perfec...

As a falling leaf may rest
A moment on the air
So your head upon my breast
So my hand upon your hair