Shut UP about Cohen, already!

Geez, I know, I know, none of you care. But I do, and it's my blog-- so ha!

Remember that post I wrote about a particular periodical article about Cohen that I was especially disenchanted with? Well, if you don't -- it's here.

Anyway, I had to write an abstract about that article for an assignment that Soldan gave us, which was to do an annotated bibliography on an author, and surprise, surprise: I chose Cohen. My abstract for this article by Fred Wah looked something like this:

The article "Cohen's Noos" by Fred Wah is a scathing piece of writing that takes a look at Leonard Cohen's writing as a whole and does not extend to any one particular piece. Wah's effort is a quasi-stream-of-consciousness article [seeing echos of my blog post, huh?] that does not develop a particular thesis but rather gives Wah's personal opinions on Cohen. Wah summarizes Cohen's writing by describing it as a personal diary: "News of Fucking. Altars. Fucking. Order. Discipline. The mathematics of angels. Fucking. Body Beautiful. The U.S.A. Fucking." (101).

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[whoa, everyone and their mom just signed into msn. I had little popups all the way to the top of my screen...]

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I felt a little iffy, putting the word "fuck"" into my paper. Repeatedly. Gratuitously. But it's Cohen in a nutshell. Especially if you take it at face value. He likes shock value, that's for sure. It sure paid off though. Soldan's comment on my paper (along with an 83%) was:

"√ (<--checkmark) Whoa, gotta look up this one! tee hee!"

She's such a card.

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