'HALLELUJAH' CHORUS: Local artists choose their favorite Leonard Cohen lyrics

For more than half a century Leonard Cohen has occupied a creative space all his own. When his songs first presented themselves to us in the mid-'60s, the Canadian writer behind "Suzanne" and "Bird on a Wire" already had two novels and four collections of poetry under his belt. Though elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, his work has almost never consorted with pop trends. Thank God for that. Rock stars have notoriously short shelf lives. Poets are permitted to get older and ...

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