


Adam, who provided the title, further states that flames are a recurrent image in his father's work: "There are fires and flames, for creation and destruction, for heat and light, for desire and consummation, throughout his work He was stimulated by their danger-he often spoke of other people's art as not having enough "danger," and he praised the "excitement of a thought that was in flames."" Įditors Faggen and Pleshoyano, along with Cohen's long-time Canadian publishers, used the manuscript prepared by Cohen as a basis for presenting the book in a format that they believed reflected the author's intentions. As Adam Cohen explains, his father was working on the collection during his final illness, the work being "what he was staying alive to do", but was unable to see it to completion. The Flame was published two years after Cohen's death at the age of 82. It was edited by Robert Faggen and Alexandra Pleshoyano, with a foreword by Cohen's son Adam Cohen. The Flame is a posthumous poetry collection by Canadian author and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, published in 2018.
