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    Leonard Cohen Never Left Earth

    <em>Thanks for the Dance,</em> the singer’s posthumously released album, honors his legacy as a mystic and as a man.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Nov 24, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters

    The work unearthed after Leonard Cohen’s death at age 82 in 2016 contemplated the soul, the Holocaust, and hip-hop. “Kanye West Is Not Picasso” went the title of one poem in Cohen’s posthumously released 2018 collection, The Flame. A portion:

    Jay-Z is not the Dylan of Anything
    I am the Dylan of anything
    I am the Kanye West of Kanye West
    The Kanye West
    Of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture
    From one boutique to another

    Don’t act so surprised. The Canadian singer and writer retains an aura of hallowed

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