Leonard Cohen Poems: poems and songs (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

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The city of Montreal held a tribute concert to Cohen in December 2016, titled "God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot" after a prose poem in his novel Beautiful Losers. Writing for AllMusic, critic Bruce Eder assessed Cohen's overall career in popular music by asserting that "[he is] one of the most fascinating and enigmatic .

His posthumous, fifteenth, and final studio album Thanks for the Dance, was released in November 2019. Cohen died on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82 at his home in Los Angeles; leukemia was a contributing cause.As light as the previous album was dark, Dear Heather reflects Cohen's own change of mood – he said in a number of interviews that his depression had lifted in recent years, which he attributed to Zen Buddhism. At a record release party for the album in January 2012, Cohen spoke with The New York Times reporter Jon Pareles who states that "mortality was very much on his mind and in his songs [on this album]. Once, when I asked him if he had any tequila, I was directed to the freezer, where I found a frosty, misplaced notebook. His song " Suzanne" became a hit for Judy Collins (who subsequently recorded a number of Cohen's other songs), and was for many years his most recorded song.

He sang two of his earliest and best-known songs: "So Long, Marianne" and " Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye", accompanied by the Barenaked Ladies and Ron Sexsmith.The first performance was well-received, and the audience of 12,000 responded with five standing ovations.

Personal process is one thing, it's blood, it's the identification one feels with their roots and their origins.

In 2011 he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. By the end of the decade Cohen's rep as a sage elder was ultra tight, inspiring doom disciples such as Kurt Cobain, Trent Reznor, and Nick Cave. Wolfson, "New Jerusalem Glowing: Songs and Poems of Leonard Cohen in a Kabbalistic Key", Kabbalah: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 15 (2006): 103–152. As was his wish, Cohen was laid to rest with a Jewish rite, in a simple pine casket, in a family plot in the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim cemetery on Mount Royal.