Death of a Lady's Man: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

Excellent quality hardback. Complete with dust jacket (non price cut), thick pages, unbroken spine, and everything else you might find if you bought this book new, which you can't ask it's out of print. I don't like buying like this generally as you are guessing slightly on the quality but I was very impressed by Death of a Lady's Man. As for the poetry, well it's Cohen. If you like his music or his written word then you'll love this. It's by far his most dense collection, with huge and amazing prose poems such as 'How to Speak Poetry'. Each work has an identically titled piece after it, sometimes ther are poems about the poems, or they are earlier drafts, bits from his notebooks. Anyway, it makes for a wonderful insight into Cohen's writing process that his other works don't always have. The only unfortunate thing about this collection would be the lack of art. In his more recent works Cohen covers the blank space with sketches, which personally I find lovely whilst reading, this book appears to squeeze just before he started doing this. But still an amazing read, and a very good copy.

Cohen at his best

just as discribed nothing to fault

excellent album, received in great condition, no problems.

The influence of Phil Spector is rather pervasive. The CD has a certain interest as a contrast to other material. However Cohen seems less comfortable than usual. A case of A Spector at the feast

Fantastic album

A must have if you are a Cohen fan.

EXCELLENT BUY QUITE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CHEN SONGS AS THEY WERE PRODUCED BY PHIL SPECTOR

Well, what can I say? This album is monumental in all aspects and certainly made it a controversial one at the time and years to come. When Mr. "walls of sound", Phil Spector is involved, you know it's going to have a good feel to it. But this album offers more. It has the styling and lyrics of the great late Leonard Cohen. With Phil at the driver's wheel, he's not only the producer, he's fully involved with lyrics, guitar, backing vocal, and arrangements, you know you'll have a winner, especially with greats stopping by to contribute to this phenomenal recording at spector's home, Terry Gibb, Sneaky Pete on pedal Steel, Claudia King, and of course Bob Dylan. However, I advise all music lovers to research the making, and how this union of Cohen and Spector came to light. It certainly goes down in the books as musical history, in every sense of the word. Buy this album now as it's a "must have" among your record collection.

Leonard Cohen excelente artista, el disco llego a tiempo y en perfecto estado,Leonard Cohen el ultimo de los grandes poetas de la musica.Nada recomendable tomar bebidas embriagantes mientras escuchas este disco, depresión segura.

... bis man sich in dieses Album rein gehört hat, entgegen sonstiger Cohen-Alben dominiert hier doch eher der Wall Of Sound, was nicht immer zu seiner Stimme und der Musik passen will.Die Klang-Qualität selbst geht in Ordnung, auch wenn es bessere Masterings aus der Zeit gibt. Mein persönliches Highlight ist der Titel-Track, aber auch "Memories" ist gut hörbar, die restlichen Titel sind typische Cohen-Titel, nur eben etwas "aufgeblasen".

Para formar parte de mi colección. Tan impresionante como siempre. No podía esperar otra cosa. Seguiré esperando a que edite más.

You can read all the stories about how Phil Spector disappeared with the master tapes somewhere else. This is still timeless.

In a radio interview Leonard Cohen said this was his collection which covers all aspects of love. It is a touching read

Enjoying this gently used copy of Mr. Cohen's prose and poetry.

Une sorte de journal des années 70 de Leonard Cohen, années conjugales douloureuses, sublimées en poémes ou en prose.Magnifique.

Also diese Scheibe soll ja damals ein ziemlicher Flop gewesen sein. Find ich eigentlich schade, denn so übel ist das Werk doch gar nicht. Mag ja sein, daß sich viele Fans plötzlich in einer neuen Cohen - Welt wiederfanden, denn von der gewohnten Gitarre war da plötzlich nix mehr zu hören. Wenn man aber viele, viele Jahre später diese CD mit den letzen musikalischen Auswüchsen ( Dear Heather ) vergleicht, dann wünscht man sich doch bestimmt mal wieder was wie "Death of a Ladies Man". Ich fand die Platte schon damals total schön, wenn auch nicht ganz nach dem damaligen Stil des Meisters.....

Nachdem ich seine ersten Werke kennen gelernt, seinen Gitarren Stil und den etwas melancholischen Gesang dazu zu schätzen gelernt habe bin ich nun mit einem etwas poppiger angehauchten Werk konfrontiert, das sich zwar als Hintergrundsmusik nicht schlecht macht, jedoch nicht überzeugend darstellt. Mehr kann ich dazu nicht schreiben. Wie gelungen doch das Debütalbum oder die CD songs from a room dagegen sind. Die Alben sind weniger aufwendig instrumentiert und kommen mit weniger Klimbim aus.

今や、刑務所の中で死の訪れを待っている。天才、音楽プロデューサーのフィルスペクター。　ガールフレンドを撃ち殺して刑務所に入る前に作った、最高な３部作は？　ジャンレノンとレナードコーエンとラーモーンズのアルバムでしょう。　最高です !!!!

Ich finde dass Album trotz des komplett anderen Stils und der Missgunst von Leonard Cohen selbst über das Album trotzdem super.Es steht den andern Alben vom Songwriting her in nichts nach und berührt auch mit den ganzen Arrangements. Alles in allem höre ich das Album sehr gerne und es ist meiner Meinung nach trotz der Andersartigkeit ein Leonard Cohen Album

Altro pessimo disco, stavolta di Cohen. Come sopra però, spedizione ottima, nei tempi e con niente di rotto o fuori posto

Super Teil, toll alles prima, toll super ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

This is a review of the book (not the music album) and it is amazing well of annotated reflections, Called here a collection of poetry, it is rather a psychological autobiography. Best enjoyed after reading Sylvie Simmons' I'm Your Man for some life details/ perspective before delving into the deep end of the pool here. Have still had to come up for air frequently. These periodically harsh but truthfilled words reasonated unexpectedly.