DEATH OF A LADY'S MAN Title Death Of A Lady's Man Year published 1978 Publisher McClelland And Stewart Ltd., Toronto Pages 216 Notes ISBN 0-7710-2177-1 Summary After a long period of hesitation, during which the book was several times withdrawn from publication, this version presents a series of poems and prose-poems, almost all of which are doubled by "commentary" poems of the same title.  It is this doubling structure of the commentaries (many of which adopt a strongly adversary role vis-à-vis their "originals") which provides the fascination of the book:  Cohen finds a form which perfectly embodies all the contradictions, self-divisions, ironies, and productive ambiguities of his poetic persona. Summary written for The Leonard Cohen Files by professor Stephen Scobie, copyright © 1997.