“Reserve of Longing offers exceptional range. It really is clear however steamy, cosmic however private, both playful and profound.”-New York Situations

Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Reserve of Longing-his 1st publication of poetry in a lot more than twenty years after 1984’s Reserve of Mercy-during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California’s Mount Baldy, and in LA, Montreal, and Mumbai. This amazing collection is enhanced by the author’s playful and provocative drawings, which interact in thrilling, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and frequently darkly humorous.

An international sensation, Publication of Longing contains all the elements which have brought Cohen’s artistry with vocabulary worldwide recognition.