LEONARD COHEN’S HALLELUJAH

Where have I been that I’ve never heard this before? First heard about this Canadian songwriter/singer/poet/and novelist while I read the Guggenheim award-winning poet, Eleanor Lerman’s latest book, Strange Life,  (Mayapple Press, 2014). Her poem, Leonard Cohen’s Guitar, led me to google him. His delivery, the intensity of his feeling, the intimacy of his words! Lerman describes it as “the kind of concert where you’re nailed to your seat and then the aliens arrive to announce the end of the world.” Sounds right to me.