《美麗失敗者》作者最真摯動人的繪本詩集， 極限音樂巨匠菲利普．格拉斯費時6年為本書譜曲， 全書中英對照，同名音樂會歌詞、影像原著！ 向大師致敬，邀集藝文名家傾心合譯： 李三沖、林蔚昀、周月英、臥斧、張照堂、張世倫、郭品潔、楊澤、詹宏志、詹偉雄、廖月娟、黎煥雄、鍾永豐、鴻鴻、尉遲秀。(依姓氏筆劃排列) 《渴望之書》的情感是跨越國界的。這些詩是李歐納‧柯恩在南加州伯地山的禪修中心，在洛杉磯、蒙特婁，在孟買寫的，距他上一本詩集的出版已經超過二十個年頭。這本燦爛動人的詩集同時收錄了詩人頑皮挑釁的畫作，這些作品和玄思冥想、無始無終卻又隱隱透露著晦暗幽默的詩作相映成趣。 極限音樂巨匠菲利普．格拉斯(Philip Glass)，和「搖滾樂界的拜倫」、加拿大籍詩人歌手李歐納．柯恩(Leonard Cohen)，兩位當代最重量級的藝術家醞釀多年，首次以柯恩2006年發表的詩畫集《渴望之書》為名，掀起跨界合作的話題。格拉斯以六年的時間，為柯恩的22首詩譜曲，運用四位歌者與小型樂團的編制，融合柯恩過去20年來的插畫投影，成為一場文學、視覺與音樂相互交合的盛宴。本書完整收錄台灣藝術節《渴望之書》亞洲首演，中英歌詞對照收藏之用。

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the legendary writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is his dazzling new collection of poetry -- twenty years in the making -- written on southern California's Mount Baldy and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. Following his highly acclaimed 1984 publication, Book of Mercy, and containing Cohen's own playful and provocative line drawings, Book of Longing brings together all the elements that have elevated Leonard Cohen's artistry to worldwide recognition.

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, "Beautiful Losers" is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint. By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, "Beautiful Losers" explores each character's attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint. "From the Paperback edition."

本书为早期后现代主义文学作品，通过“我”——一个英裔民俗学家，和“我”的导师、同性恋伙伴——法裔民族主义者F之间的断续交流、回忆以及仅存于他们意念中的“我”的妻子——印第安女子伊迪丝和历史上第一个印第安贞女圣徒凯瑟琳·特卡奎萨的言行、生平的片断描写，表现了二十世纪六十年代西方那段躁动的历史、放浪的生活。 本书前言 特色及评论 文章节选