Leonard Cohen - ''Show Me The Place''
Anthem The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Leonard Cohen ''Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." – Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal, PQ in 1934 . His father, an engineer who owned a clothing concern, died when Leonard was nine. He went on to attend McGill University, where at 17 he formed a country-western trio called the Buckskin Boys. He also began writing poetry and became part of the local boho-literary scene, a scene so "underground" that it was bereft of 'subversive intentions because even that would be beneath it. " His first collection of poetry, 'Let Us Compare Mythologies,' was published in 1956, while he was still an undergraduate. 'The Spice Box Of Earth' (1961), his second collection, catapulted Leonard Cohen to