Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
May 2011 · Sold by Vintage
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Rediscover the tender, melancholic wonder of Leonard Cohen in this essential collection of his most iconic verses.
A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith and longing, his voice would come to move the world.
Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross section of Cohen’s most celebrated era and includes legendary songs like "Suzanne," "I’m Your Man," and "Hallelujah," alongside selections from poetry collections such as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady’s Man.
Daring, intimate, evocative, Stranger Music illuminates the great legacy of an artist whose work transcended genres and generations.
"Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried." —Nick Cave
A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith and longing, his voice would come to move the world.
Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross section of Cohen’s most celebrated era and includes legendary songs like "Suzanne," "I’m Your Man," and "Hallelujah," alongside selections from poetry collections such as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady’s Man.
Daring, intimate, evocative, Stranger Music illuminates the great legacy of an artist whose work transcended genres and generations.
"Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried." —Nick Cave
Rediscover the tender, melancholic wonder of Leonard Cohen in this essential collection of his most iconic verses.
A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith and longing, his voice would come to move ...
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Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and eleven books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Book of Longing,and Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent of which, You Want It Darker, was released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. Mr. Cohen died in 2016.
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and eleven books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Book of Longing,and...
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