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Stranger Music
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407053592
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Stranger Music

Selected Poems and Songs

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5 Dec 2026
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1 July 2010
Tr. Paperback
15 Dec 1993
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Some of the best work of one of the most enduring poet/songwriters of our time collected.

Leonard Cohen's legacy is that of 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', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel', and elections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems.

Stranger Music brings together Cohen's song lyrics and a generous selection of his poetry and is a celebration of the legendary musician's extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

'A massive record of the poet's imaginative journey, through beauty, through horror, through the extremes of love and despair, from the deepest abyss of self-abnegation to the rare and necessary moments of ecstasy. The language ranges from the exquisitely beautiful to the darkly obscene, from the romantically inspired to the ironically banal... A poetic record like no other' Toronto Star
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407053592
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world. Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
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Praise for Stranger Music

Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried

Nick Cave

As a songwriter, he is one of the artists that proved you can be poetic, abstract and deeply meaningful without over explaining yourself. . .The Buddhist king of cool.

Boy George

There seems to be a Leonard Cohen line for almost every crossroads in life. Forever a thousand floors above us in the Tower of Song

Tamino

As strong a poet as he is a musician

Guardian

Cohen has one of the most extraordinary bodies of work

San Francisco Chronicle

A godsend for Cohen fans... A remarkable body of work that takes us back to the earliest days

Ottawa Citizen

A massive record of the poet's imaginative journey, through beauty, through horror, through the extremes of love and despair, from the deepest abyss of self-abnegation to the rare and necessary moments of ecstasy. The language ranges from the exquisitely beautiful to the darkly obscene, from the romantically inspired to the ironically banal... A poetic record like no other

Toronto Star

Impressive by any standard

The Globe and Mail