Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs - Softcover

Cohen, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771022328 ISBN 13: 9780771022326

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1994

Synopsis

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 eight 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 this title

Review:

"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)

Book Description:

Some of the best work of one of the most enduring poet/songwriters of our time collected.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0771022328
• ISBN 13: 9780771022326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432