IN VOGUE: LEONARD COHEN 1969

Leonard Cohen, over thirty, is a mind-opener for the young. Elusive, driven, with a powerfully soft voice and a trapper's walk, he has written songs, poems, and two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers - all with the cadence of '"invisible songs."' 

A Canadian, Cohen lives in transit over earth, brown eyes wary, nostrils on guard, uniformed in this withered leather jacket in the right pocket of which he still fumbles for the Moroccan squirrel that once lived there."...

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Leonard Cohen
Vogue August , 1969
Photography: Irving Penn