Playing her new song “Bring Home My Man” during a recent show in Pasadena, New York singer-songwriter Maya Hawke cited one of its guiding inspirations: Leonard Cohen ’s “ How to Speak Poetry. ” There’s only one explicit reference to Cohen’s poem in her song—his “You look good when you’re tired” becomes her “You look so good when you’re spent”—but the poem’s influence on her fourth record, MAITREYA CORSO , goes far deeper than that. In his poem, Cohen commands that an artist offer radical honesty: no performance, all vulnerability. That’s a core goal of MAITREYA CORSO, Hawke’s hybrid folk/pop record—she wrestles with both overzealous ambition and crushing self-doubt in order to figure out who she really is. She faces several setbacks on that journey; these transformations are never linear. But her optimism is contagious. She beckons to the meek: Come, learn how to fill your shoes without getting too big for them. Move forward with me, and grow into yourself; let’s find happiness together.…