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Victor H. wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:25:22 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 11:30:15 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.

>> HTH and HAND.

> Anyone who knows anything about Leonard Cohen knows that....


Exactly, when is why Michael Pendragon is ignorant about it.