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selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems.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