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The poems in "The Book of Longing" were written by Cohen at Bird Mountain Meditation Center in Southern California, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai, more than twenty years after the publication of his last collection of poems. This brilliant and moving collection of poems also features Cohen's playful and provocative paintings, which are paired with meditative, beginningless and darkly humorous poems. The New York Times commented: "The writing scope of "The Book of Desire" is unique, clear yet suffused with moisture, vast yet private, naughty yet profound."

"Byron of Rock and Roll" is a long masterpiece. The work breaks through the traditional form of novels and is known as Canada's first postmodern novel. This book is Cohen's masterpiece, published in the mid-1960s. The novel is set in Montreal in the 1960s and outlines a triangle of love: an unknown scholar devoted to the study of Indian tribes, his wife Edith, the last descendant of a certain Indian tribe, and scholar F. These three people are connected by the legend of a seventeenth-century Indian saint named Catherine Tinkweather, and they are in a tangled relationship. The novel sometimes talks in sleep and sometimes howls, expressing people's desire for order and the terror of spiritual loneliness. The work breaks through the traditional form of the novel and is known as Canada's first postmodern novel.

"Byron of Rock and Roll" is a wonderful book that combines poetry and painting, recreating his life roles as a poet, writer, singer, painter, and monk. It was jointly translated by writer Kong Yalei and poet Bei Dao. This book is a collection of Cohen's sincere and moving poems in the form of pictures and texts. It contains nearly a hundred large and small paintings by Cohen, interspersed with nearly a hundred poems. The mischievous and provocative paintings are in perfect contrast with the poems that are meditative, beginningless and yet vaguely dark and humorous. It is a wonderful book that can be sung in a low voice, read silently, and also enjoy a visual feast. It was jointly translated by writer Kong Yalei and poet Bei Dao.