I certainly have my order in for Cohen's first album of new songs in nine years that is to be released some time this month - 'Ten New Songs' Columbia. According to the Village Records new releases sheet for October, the new album is all love songs Cohen style.

In respect of the 'monk' reference above, he is into Zen. There is a photo of him in his robes with his Zen master, Roshi, in Ira B. Nadel's 'Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen'.

--Stewie.