Suzanne Takes You Down to Her Place Near the River
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:02 am
Suzanne Takes You Down to Her Place Near the River
Wrestling with debt, ambition, and the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen’s famous song.
By Lacy Warner
https://www.guernicamag.com/suzanne-tak ... the-river/
Suzanne Verdal in an undated photo. Image provided by Suzanne Verdal.
Wrestling with debt, ambition, and the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen’s famous song.
By Lacy Warner
https://www.guernicamag.com/suzanne-tak ... the-river/
Suzanne Verdal in an undated photo. Image provided by Suzanne Verdal.
LC's song Suzanne was featured in the movie soundtrack of Wild as I posted in 2014 - https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewt ... ld#p349759In the late seventies, while Suzanne was dancing on the renaissance festival circuit in Minnesota, she became good friends with a woman whose eleven-year-old daughter would grow up to be the writer Cheryl Strayed. Suzanne showed me her copy of Strayed’s memoir, Wild, which had a thoughtful inscription from the author inside.