Introduction: The Contemporary Leonard Cohen - Kait Pinder and Joel Deshaye "A Man Must Be Very Alone": The Contemporary as the Outsider "I Desire Only Your Love by the Telling": Alienation and Authenticity in "A Ballet of Lepers" and The Favourite Game - Laura Cameron and Claudine Gélinas-Faucher Leonard Cohen, Marianne Ihlen and Hydra's Summer of Love - Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni Untimely Meditations: Critical History in Flowers for Hitler - Kait Pinder Is It Really Revolting? Toward an Ethics of Loss in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here - Gregory Betts After "THE DACHAU GENERATION": Contemporaries in Song Fame, Failure, and Redemption: Leonard Cohen and His Contemporaries - Norman Ravvin Gossip, Rumour, and Relationship: Learning Leonard Cohen from Joni Mitchell - Joel Deshaye "I Undid Your Gown": Rhyming Decorum in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen - Brian Laidlaw "A Song the People Loved was Written by a Thief": Cohen's Songs of Revolt - Patrick Nickleson "Desire the Horse / Depression the Cart": Feeling Contemporary "I've Seen the Future, Baby: It is Murder": The Apocalypse in Leonard Cohen's Pop Theology - Christophe Lebold The Humble One: A Polyptych of Self-Portraits in Book of Longing and The Flame - Joan Angel "Memory White from Loss of Guilt": Guilt and Detachment in the Early Cohen - Brian Trehearne Ways to Say Goodbye: Valedictions in Book of Longing - Paul Robichaud Conclusion: "A Brief Elaboration": Fan-Scholars and Cohen Studies - Joel Deshaye and Kait Pinder Contributors Kait Pinder, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS Joel Deshaye, Memorial University, St. John's, NFLD Laura Cameron, Toronto, ON Claudine Gélinas-Faucher, Québec City Tanya Dalziell, University of Western Australia, Perth Paul Genoni, Curtin University, Perth Gregory Betts, Brock University, St. Catharine's ON Norman Ravvin, Concordia University, Montréal Patrick Nickleson, Queen's University, Toronto Brian Laidlaw, University of Denver, Boulder Christophe Lebold, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg FR Joan Angel, Independent, Quebec Brian Trehearne, McGill University, Montreal Paul Robichaud, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven.