I'm Your Man (63 page)

Notes

Unless otherwise stated, all extracted quotes in the form of a Q & A are taken from the author's interviews of Leonard Cohen. These interviews are indicated in the sources by the initials SS and the date of the interview.

Prologue

1.
SS, 2001.

One:
Born in a Suit

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, David Cohen, Mort Rosengarten, Arnold Steinberg, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat

Books and documents: Miriam Chapin,
Quebec Now,
Ryverson Press, 1955. L. S. Dorman and C. L. Rawlins,
Prophet of the Heart,
Omnibus, 1990. Leonard Cohen,
The Favorite Game,
Secker & Warburg UK, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964). Leonard Cohen Archive, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada (“Archive”). Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions,
Bloomsbury, 1996. Harry Rasky,
The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film,
Souvenir Press, 2001.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen to SS, 2001.

1.
SS, 2001.

2.
Rasky, 2001.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

5.
Ibid.

6.
William Ruhlmann, “The Stranger Music of Leonard Cohen,”
Goldmine,
February 19, 1993.

7.
SS, 2001.

8.
SS, 2011.

9.
Chapin, 1955.

10.
Fevret, 1991.

11.
Archive (undated, likely late 1950s).

12.
Dorman and Rawlins, 1990.

13.
Pamela Andriotakis and Richard Oulahan,
People,
January 14, 1980.

14.
Fevret, 1991.

15.
Arthur Kurzweil, “A Conversation with Leonard Cohen,”
Jewish Book Club
, 1994.

16.
Fevret, 1991.

17.
Archive (undated, likely late 1950s).

Two:
House of Women

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Mort Rosengarten, David Cohen, Steve Brewer, Rona Feldman, Phil Cohen, Nancy Bacal

Books and documents: Anonymous,
25 Lessons in Hypnotism: How to Become an Expert Operator,
undated, Archive. Miriam Chapin,
Quebec Now,
1955, Ryverson Press. Leonard Cohen,
The Favorite Game,
Secker & Warburg UK, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964)
.
Leonard Cohen, “The Juke-Box Heart: Excerpt from a Journal,” unpublished, undated, Archive. Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen,
Bloomsbury, 1996. Mordecai Richler,
Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album,
Chatto & Windus, 1984. Mordecai Richler,
Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!,
Penguin Books Canada, 1992. Summer camp reports, Archive.
Vox Ducum,
Westmount High School Yearbook, issues 1950 and 1951.

Chapter heading: SS.

1.
Anonymous,
25 Lessons in Hypnotism,
Archive.

2.
Cohen, 1963.

3.
Brian D. Johnson,
Maclean's,
December 7, 1992.

4.
Richler, 1992.

5.
Archive.

6.
Cohen to Bruce Headlam,
Saturday Night,
December 1997.

7.
Archive.

8.
Cohen, 1963.

9.
Archive.

10.
Federico Garcia Lorca, “Gacela of the Morning Market,”
Divan Del Tamarit,
1936, published in
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca,
ed. F. G. Lorca and Donald M. Allen, New Directions Publishing, 1955, 2005 edition, trans. Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili.

11.
Marco Adria,
Aurora,
July 1990.

12.
Arthur Kurzweil, “A Conversation with Leonard Cohen,”
Jewish Book Club
, 1994.

13.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

14.
Cohen, Prince of Asturias Award speech, October 21, 2011.

15.
Fevret, 1991.

16.
SS, 2011.

17.
SS, 2001.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Cohen, Asturias Award speech.

20.
Cohen, 1963.

Three:
Twenty Thousand Verses

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Mort Rosengarten, Nancy Bacal, Arnold Steinberg, David Cohen, Steve Brewer, Dean Davis, Janet Davis, Melvin Heft, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, Aviva Layton

Books, films, publications and documents:
CIV/n,
5, 1954, and 6, 1955.
The Forge
, March 1955 and March 1956. Irving Layton,
The Love Poems of Irving Layton: With Reverence and Delight,
1984. Leonard Cohen Archive, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada (“Archive”). Lian Lunson,
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man,
Lionsgate, 2006. Hugh MacLennan,
Two Solitudes,
1945. McGill University alumnus archives. McGill University Rare Books Library. Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen,
Bloomsbury, 1996. Harry Rasky,
The
Song of Leonard Cohen,
documentary film, 1980.
Vox Ducum,
Westmount High School yearbook, 1951. Ruth Wisse, “My Life Without Leonard Cohen,”
Commentary,
October 1995.

Chapter heading: Mort Rosengarten to SS, 2009.

1.
Vox Ducum,
1951.

2.
Archive.

3.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

4.
Rasky, 1980.

5.
Wisse, 1995.

6.
Fevret, 1991.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Cohen, speech given at Irving Layton's funeral, January 2006.

9.
Cohen in Lian Lunson, 2006.

10.
Fevret, 1991.

11.
Rasky, 1980.

12.
Ibid.

Four:
I Had Begun to Shout

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Aviva Layton, Mort Rosengarten, Arnold Steinberg, Phil Cohen, Henry Zemel, David Cohen

Books, documents and publications: Leonard Cohen,
A Ballet of Lepers,
Archive. Leonard Cohen,
The Favorite Game,
Secker & Warburg, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964). Leonard Cohen,
Let Us Compare Mythologies,
1956. Leonard Cohen,
The Spice-Box of Earth,
1961. L. S. Dorman and C. L. Rawlins,
Prophet of the Heart,
Omnibus, 1990. Letters, Archive. Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions,
Bloomsbury, 1996. Georgianna Orsini,
An Imperfect Lover: Poems and Watercolors,
Cavankerry, 2002.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “Rites,” in Cohen, 1956.

1.
Cohen, from “For Wilf and His House,” in Cohen, 1956
.

2.
Dorman and Rawlins, 1990, p. 79.

3.
Cited anonymously in ibid., p. 80.

4.
Milton Wilson, review of
Let Us Compare Mythologies,
in
Canadian Forum
36, March 1957.

5.
Allan Donaldson, review of
Let Us Compare Mythologies,
Fiddlehead
30, November 1956.

6.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

7.
Let Us Compare Mythologies,
McClelland & Stewart, 2006 edition.

8.
SS, 2001.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Ibid.

12.
“Synergie, Jean-Luc Esse and Leonard Cohen,” radio program, France-Inter, October 1977, trans. Nick Halliwell.

13.
Fevret,
1991.

14.
Archive, file 5.

15.
SS, 2001.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Ibid.

18.
Fevret,
1991.

19.
Orsini, 2004.

20.
Archive, boxes 1 and 3.

21.
William Ruhlmann,
Goldmine,
February 19, 1993.

22.
Archive.

23.
Gavin Martin,
NME,
January 1993.

24.
Irving Layton, interviewed by Ian Pearson,
Saturday Night,
March 1993.

Five:
A Man Who Speaks with a Tongue of Gold

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Nancy Bacal, Mort Rosengarten, Steve Sanfield, George Lialios, Angelika Lialios, Marianne Ihlen

Book: Kari Hesthamar,
So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie
, Spartacus, 2008.

Chapter heading: Marianne Ihlen to SS, 2010.

1.
Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions,
Bloomsbury, 1996, p. 110.

2.
Jack McClelland,
Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland,
ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998.

3.
Cohen, letter to McClelland & Stewart associate editor Claire Pratt, July 21, 1959, in Archive.

4.
SS, 2001, for the article “Heroes' Heroes,” in
MOJO
, March 2002
.

5.
SS, 2001.

6.
Richard Goldstein,
Village Voice,
December 28, 1967, reproduced in
Goldstein's Greatest Hits: A Book Mostly About Rock 'n' Roll,
AbeBooks, 1970.

7.
SS, 2011.

8.
Arthur Kurzweil, “A Conversation with Leonard Cohen,”
Jewish Book Club
, 1994.

9.
SS, 2001.

10.
Cohen, letter to Layton, April 21, 1963, in Archive.

11.
Cohen, Kari Hesthamar, Norwegian radio interview, 2005.

12.
Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, December 24, 1960.

Six:
Enough of Fallen Heroes

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Steve Sanfield, Marianne Ihlen, Aviva Layton, Nancy Bacal, Richard Vick, George Lialios, Barry Miles

Books, films and documents: Donald Brittain and Don Owen,
Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen,
documentary film, 1965.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
(online)
.
Leonard Cohen,
Beautiful Losers
, 1966. Leonard Cohen,
Flowers for Hitler
, 1964. Leonard Cohen,
The Spice-Box of Earth
, 1961. Leonard Cohen Archive, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada (“Archive”). Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions,
Bloomsbury, 1996.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton,
Enough of Fallen Heroes,
unpublished work for TV, 1961.

1.
Cohen, letter to Desmond Pacey, February 23, 1961, Archive.

2.
Cohen, letter to Jack McClelland, October 12, 1960, Archive.

3.
Lorca, letter to his parents, April 5, 1930, cited in Nadel, 1996.

4.
Brittain and Owen, 1965.

5.
Interview in Nadel, 1994.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Cohen,
Spice-Box of Earth,
first edition, dust jacket.

10.
Robert Weaver,
Toronto Daily Star,
June 10, 1961.

11.
David Bromige,
Canadian Literature,
Autumn 1961.

12.
Cohen, radio interview with Kari Hesthamar, 2005.

13.
Cohen, letter to Layton, October 15, 1962, Archive.

14.
Robin Pike,
ZigZag,
October 1974.

Seven:
Please Find Me, I Am Almost 30

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Erica Pomerance, Suzanne Verdal, Marianne Ihlen, Aviva Layton, Dennis Lee, Allan Showalter, Mort Rosengarten

Books and publications: Leonard Cohen,
The Favorite Game,
Secker & Warburg, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964). Leonard Cohen,
Flowers for Hitler,
1964. Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions,
Bloomsbury, 1996. Michael Ondaatje,
Leonard Cohen,
McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Jack McClelland,
Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland,
ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998. T. F. Rigelhof,
This Is Our Writing,
Porcupine's Quill, 1998.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “Marita,” in
Selected Poems 1956–1968.

1.
Ondaatje, 1970.

2.
Rigelhof, 1998.

3.
Danny Fields,
Soho Weekly News,
December 1974.

4.
Sarah Hampson,
Globe and Mail,
May 25, 2007.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ondaatje, 1970.

7.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, August 1963, Archive.

8.
Cohen, quoting a 1984 conversation with Walter Yetnikoff, to SS, 2001.

9.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, July 1963, Archive.

10.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, March 1964, Archive.

11.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, September 9, 1963, published in McClelland, 1998.

12.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, September 2, 1964, published in McClelland, 1998.

13.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, September 9, 1963, published in McClelland, 1998.