From This Broken Hill I Sing to You

Leonard Cohens troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohens work, this book is the first to trace a consistent theology across sixty years of Cohens writing, drawing on his Jewish heritage and its expression in his lyrics and poems. Cohens commitment to covenant, and his anger at this God who made us so prone to failing it, undergird the faith, frustration, and sardonic taunting of Cohens work. Both his faith and ire are traced through: Cohens unorthodox use of Jewish and Christian imagery His writings about women, politics, and the Holocaust His final theology, You Want It Darker, released three weeks before his death.