Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

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selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems.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.