THE SONG OF LEONARD COHEN

PORTRAIT OF A POET, A FRIENDSHIP AND A FILM

by Harry Rasky





Title The Song of Leonard Cohen
Author Harry Rasky
Country & Year Canada 2001
Publisher Mosaic Press, Canada.
Pages 160 pages. 10 b/w photos.
Notes ISBN 0-88962-742-8. Paperback.
Summary "The crowd, the mass, the fans cheered for elegance, splendour under danger, and even more they cheered for blood. Leonard's tour took him mostly to sports venues and occasionally majestified concert halls, a journey of exhaustion to the level of pain."

"In the late seventies, filmmaker Harry Rasky was on one wild trip! He soaked in a jacuzzi at the Four Seasons with Leonard Cohen ... he drank wine and talked about the meaning of the life with Leonard and Irving Layton at Leonard's place in Montreal... Harry and Leonard were mistaken for Bader-Meinhof terrorists by soldiers with machine guns while dining at a German Burger King ... Harry was also a part of the 1979 Field Commander Cohen tour ... but best of all, he got everything on film. Read more about his 1981 documentary Song of Leonard Cohen.

Leonard Cohen called Harry Rasky recently to express his appreciation and admiration for the film. Inspired by that conversation, Rasky has delved into his personal archives and diaries upon which the film is based and has woven them into this text."

Also read the review by Judith Fitzgerald




Photo © 1979 by Hazel Field. Reprinted with
permission. Any other use strictly forbidden.


Thanks to Amy Land at Mosaic Press.



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