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Stranger Music

Selected Poems and Songs

Selected Poems and Songs

Selected Poems and Songs

By Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen

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Paperback $19.00

Nov 01, 1994 | ISBN 9780679755418

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Aug 13, 1994 | ISBN 9780771022326

Ebook $14.99

May 25, 2011 | ISBN 9780307794680

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    About Stranger Music

    In the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure–and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen’s work–including the legendary songs “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” “I’m Your Man,” and “The Future”; selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems. This volume demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.

    About Stranger Music

    Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs celebrates the astonishing career of Leonard Cohen, revered around the world as one of the great visionaries, writers, performers, and most consistently daring songwriters.

    Cohen’s career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies, and he has since published mulitple books of poems—including The Spice-Box of Earth, Death of a Lady’s Man, and Book of Mercy—and has made numerous albums, becoming one of the most popular and influential artists in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

    His first record, The Songs of Leonard Cohen, released in 1967, was a remarkable musical début and introduced some of his most famous songs, including “Suzanne,” “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye,” and “Sisters of Mercy.” From then, and with each subsequent album, he earned the status as one of the most dazzlingly literate songwriters of our time.

    Stranger Music brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of Leonard Cohen’s song lyrics and his poetry, including some poems not previously published. This landmark edition demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen’s work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language that speaks with rare clarity, passion, and timelessness.

    About Stranger Music

    In the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure–and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen’s work–including the legendary songs “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” “I’m Your Man,” and “The Future”; selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems. This volume demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.

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    Poems and Songs: Cohen
    The Favorite Game
    Beautiful Losers
    See all books by Leonard Cohen

    Also by Leonard Cohen

    Fifteen Poems
    Poems and Songs: Cohen
    The Favorite Game
    Beautiful Losers
    See all books by Leonard Cohen

    About Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected… More about Leonard Cohen

    About Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected… More about Leonard Cohen

    About Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected… More about Leonard Cohen

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Music | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 01, 1994 | 432 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679755418

    Category: Poetry | Music | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $25.00
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    Aug 13, 1994 | 432 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780771022326

    Category: Poetry | Music | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 25, 2011 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780307794680

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    Praise

    “Stranger Music brings together, at last, the words of a Canadian artist who has been anything but a stranger to so many of us for so long. . . . Cohen has woven a chain of words that binds us together.” —Calgary Herald

    “Stranger Music is a massive record of the poet’s imaginative journey through beauty, through horror, through the extremes of love and despair. . . . Cohen is always a poet of extremes: that’s where he lives, at the edges of them.” —Toronto Star

    “Stranger Music is a record of Cohen’s dispatches from the front, an invaluable record of a shining voice. It burns still.” —Ottawa Citizen

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