Leonard cohen garcia lorca biography

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From the moment in which I knew Lorca's influence in Cohen's work, I can't read Lorca without thinking about this relation.

My curiosity has always been to know how it was this meeting between Lorca and Cohen, this transcendental moment. Which was this book Cohen found in the bookshop of Montreal? What poems were in it? How were they translated? How did they sound in English? How were the types of letters?

We find the clues in the prologues of "Take This Waltz" in the 1988's tour. (see Marc Gaffieand the Tom's quotes in this topic. If I could transcribe, I would add the very beautiful one of the Royal Albert Hall, London 30 May.) I'm deeply moved by the great effort that Cohen realised to adapt this wonderful poem as a song, and the admiration and love that he showed.

Probably he gave the key of this in an interview to the Catalan television, (TV3, Barcelona, May 1988 "Leonard Cohen lluny dels seixanta" - "LC Far From The Sixties"). The interviewer asks what was Lorca's first book he had read; Cohen answers that it was "Selected Poems" translated by Stephen Spender, he doubts and adds that probably it was working together with "Liechman". He tells that when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, reading poetry was a duty, until he found in a bookshop this book that

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At a concert in Nuremberg in October, 1988, Leonard Cohen
introduced a song that was born in a Montreal bookstore when Cohen was 15 years old:

It was about 300 years ago today that I stumbled on a book by a Spanish poet. A book that was to alter my life completely. You see I was destined to be a brain surgeon or a forest ranger or even just to go into the family clothing business. But in this old bookstore I opened a book and I read the lines “I want to pass through the arches of Elvira, to see your thighs and begin weeping.” I turned to the cover of the book, it was written by a Spanish poet by the name of Frederico Garcia Lorca, and for the first time I understood that there was another world and I wanted to be in it. So it was a great honour for me when I was asked to translate one of his great poems into English and to set it to music. The poem is Little Viennese Waltz which I called Take This Waltz.”

Leonard Cohen named his daughter Lorca.

These are the lyrics to his song:

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women.
There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry.
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows.
There’s a tree where the doves go to die.
There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
and it hangs in t