I’m pleased that there is this push to get Leonard Cohen nominated for a Nobel. As with so many others, Cohen is a poet I can get behind. However, I do think that his poetic father, Irving Layton, was a better poet. Although Layton was nominated in 1981 by South Korea and Italy, he didn’t win the prize. I guess it’s tough when you are up against Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Now, I watch the papers for news of Layton’s death. Currently, he is struggling wth Alzheimer’s disease at Maimonides Hospital in Montreal. Cohen’s renown has long surpassed Layton’s. I wonder if that can translate not only into an Nobel nomination, but a win.
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