The perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and other lovers as well, this evocative, lyrical tribute to love and its healing, restorative powers, is complemented by 21 diverse works by Henri Matisse, including oils, line drawings, paper cut-outs, book illustrations, and linocuts.
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The Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, known primarily for his mournful tunes of love misplaced, has produced a surprising message of hopeful passion in this playful picture book for grownups in love. The 21 Matisse illustrations sprawl luxuriously across the pages. Art, poetry, and the suggestion of erotic delights... what more can a lover ask?
About the Author
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies (just reissued). He has published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs and Book of Longing. He has to date made seventeen albums, the latest being Dear Heather. Numerous tribute albums, in many languages, have celebrated his songs. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Montreal.
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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
...Show me slowly what I only know the limits of....,
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This review is from: Dance Me To The End Of Love (Hardcover)
I'm a great fan of this series of books - each takes a poem and an artist, and blends the words of the poem with the images of the artist to create a harmonious, well-matched whole. Dance Me To The End Of Love is the most successful of the sequence, with Matisse's gliding, extravagantly curvaceous artwork and Leonard Cohen's beautiful song-poem floating around, in and out of each other, the words complementing the images complementing the words. It is a beautiful book to look at and to read, to savour and enjoy. Matisse was an artist whose images had all the flying poise and grace of the dancer, and is the only possible artist who could have complemented Leonard Cohen's song. I am delighted to possess this book, and can read it over and over again, admiring the beauty and vision of the person who set the typeface and layout of the pages. If you love beautiful things, and admire Matisse, this is a book you must have casually tossed onto your coffee table - see how many people lean forward and glance inside, and are riveted immediately.
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great book for lovers,
By beezle@sasquatch.com (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dance Me to the End of Love (Hardcover)
This isn't a book of poetry, it is a book of one poem, beautifully matched with work by Matisse. I have now given it to two different couples for their weddings. Words and pictures to make your heart soar, Cohen and Matisse seemed to be talking to each other with their art.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a treasure!,
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This review is from: Dance Me To The End Of Love (Hardcover)
i love this book... it is so rhythmical and sensual. i got it for my husband on our wedding day. it was perfect.
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leonard Cohen New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leonard Cohen New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen on page 26, page 27, and Back Matter
- The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen on page 26
- Flowers for Hitler by Leonard Cohen on page 26
- Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen on page 26
- The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families by Mary Pipher in Front Matter
- Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work by S. Lillian Kremer on page 246
- The Trouser Press Guide to 90's Rock: The All-New Fifth Edition of the Trouser Press Record Guide by Ira A. Robbins on page 134
- All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide To Popular Music, 4th Edition by Hal Leonard Corp. on page 89
- All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (3rd Edition) by Vladimir Bogdanov on page 233
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