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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:59:56 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery 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.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > What I said was that he was a successful folksinger/songwriter who parlayed his singing fame into a career as a "poet."
>> > > You have it backwards, then.
>> > >
>> > > Leonard Cohen was a poet long before he was a singer.
>
> *yawn*


Agreed, we've covered the Leonard Cohen as poet and folk singer, well enough, Pendragon.

HTH and HAND.