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Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:

>> On 2022-05-30 10:11 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Your ignorance is showing again, Pendragon.
>>>
>>> Leonard Cohen was a successful poet years before he became a Folk Rock singer.
>>>

>> Indeed he was.

>> "In 1961, McClelland & Stewart published Cohen's 2nd collection, The
>> Spice-Box of Earth (1961), which received rave reviews and sold out its
>> 1st printing. The book made him a public figure in Canada.[12] The book
>> also helped Cohen gain critical recognition as an important new voice in
>> Canadian poetry. Cohen biographer Ira Nadel stated that "reaction to the
>> finished book was enthusiastic and admiring.... The critic Robert Weaver
>> found it powerful and declared that Cohen was 'probably the best young
>> poet in English Canada right now.'"[13]

>>> HTH and HAND.

>> He's probably better known as a singer/songwriter, but anyone who's
>> learned anything about Cohen knows that he was a poet first.

> Now try and get that across to the stupid V.D. Boy, the ignorant poetry bigot... ha ha.

Pendragon finally seems to have stopped playing stupid and has accepted that Leonard Cohen was a poet years before becoming a singer-songwriter.

HTH and HAND.