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On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 11:30:15 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Zod wrote:
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> > George J. Dance wrote:
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> >> 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.

Learn to read, Donkey.

What I said was that he was a successful folksinger/songwriter who parlayed his singing fame into a career as a "poet."

I'm sure that you take heart in knowing that a songwriter can be considered (by some) to be a poet, but you're no Leonard Cohen.