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- Tue Sep 03, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: Question about "First We Take Manhattan" and Cohen reference to a poem by Irving Layton
- Replies: 7
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Re: Question about "First We Take Manhattan" and Cohen reference to a poem by Irving Layton
Firstly, welcome to the forum, Louis! And secondly, the quote above with a few words different, is at the beginning of this audio at Toronto 11.09.88 - pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AyUADwypc4. If you want to listen to the first part of this interview here it is - pt 1 https://www.youtube.c...
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:10 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: Question about "First We Take Manhattan" and Cohen reference to a poem by Irving Layton
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16366
Re: Question about "First We Take Manhattan" and Cohen reference to a poem by Irving Layton
Thank you so much Ischwart for your clarification, and especially for your posting of Irving Layton's original poem. I too had been hunting for it ever since seeing Leonard Cohen's reference to it in his Wikipedia entry. He does indeed "remember" it very inaccurately, and as somebody else ...