Louis Schwartz

Leonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy

Arts & Literature

“Doron Cohen offers us a detailed commentary on Leonard Cohen’s collection of psalm-like prose poems, Book of Mercy, informed by his work translating the book into Modern Hebrew, and by a lifetime of listening, reading, and discussing Cohen’s songs and writings. These annotations, above all, reveal the depth of the collection’s allusive texture—to Jewish sources, especially, but to a wide range of others, and to Cohen’s own life and work. It’s a remarkable guide.”