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2 unusual facts about Book of Longing


Book of Longing

First published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart, Book of Longing contains 167 previously unpublished poems and drawings, mostly written at a Zen monastery on Mount Baldy in California, where Cohen lived from 1994 to 1999, and in India, which he visited regularly during the late 1990s.

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The work was premiered at Luminato in Toronto, Canada, and was subsequently performed at various venues in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.



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