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Stranger Music Selected Poems and Songs

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ISBN-10: 0679755411

ISBN-13: 9780679755418

Edition: N/A

Authors: Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen

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For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.90" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. His first book of poetry, 'Let Us Compare Mythologies', was published in 1956 and his first novel, the semi-autobiographical 'The Favourite Game', in 1963. Cohen has recorded numerous albums and published several books of poetry and an experimental novel, 'Beautiful Losers' (1966). Cohen lives in Montreal, Canada.

Poem
Letter
Lovers
Prayer for Messiah
When This American Woman
These Heroics
Warning
The Fly
As the Mist Leaves No Scar
Beneath My Hands
I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries
I Long to Hold Some Lady
Owning Everything
Song
For Anne
You Have the Lovers
Song for Abraham Klein
Song to Make Me Still
Summer Haiku
My Lady Can Sleep
Gift
I Wonder How Many People in This City
Travel
I Have Two Bars of Soap
The Cuckold's Song
Morning Song
The Flowers That I Left in the Ground
A Kite Is a Victim
There Are Some Men
Isaiah
What I'm Doing Here
I Wanted to Be a Doctor
The Drawer's Condition on November 28, 1961
The Invisible Trouble
Opium and Hitler
It Uses Us!
Heirloom
All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann
Sky
Hitler
The Failure of a Secular Life
Wheels, Fireclouds
The Music Crept by Us
Hydra 1960
Queen Victoria and Me
I Had It for a Moment
The Way Back
On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken
Style
Disguises
Cherry Orchards
Streetcars
Nothing I Can Lose
Front Lawn
The Big World
The Lists
Promise
For E. J. P.
One Night I Burned
I See You on a Greek Mattress
Snow Is Falling
Fingerprints
A Cross Didn't Fall on Me
Suzanne
Teachers
Winter Lady
So Long, Marianne
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
Master Song
Sisters of Mercy
The Stranger Song
A Person Who Eats Meat
Marita
This Is for You
The Reason I Write
You Do Not Have to Love Me
You Live Like a God
Be with Me
What Is a Saint
A Great Feast in Quebec
Magic Is Alive
All Right, Edith
Believe Me, Edith
Story of Isaac
Lady Midnight
You Know Who I Am
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
Bird on the Wire
Joan of Arc
Avalanche
Diamonds in the Mine
Famous Blue Raincoat
Welcome to These Lines
The Only Poem
Portrait of a Girl
I Perceived the Outline of Your Breasts
The Escape
I Am Dying
1967
Ugly in My Own Eyes
There Are No Traitors
I Left a Woman
Invisible Tonight
Love Is a Fire
You Tore Your Shirt
Threat
Dark at Four O'Clock
Far from the Soil
My Room
The Road to Larissa
I Am Punished
Aquarian Age
The Killers
Purest of Occasions
You Went to Work
Any System
One of These Days
I Try to Keep in Touch
My Greed
Your Eyes
This Is War
I'd Like to Read
The Poems Don't Love Us Any More
Stay
Etiquette
A Veil
A Future Night
Morocco
Song for My Assassin
The Wrong Man
One
This Is My Voice
Chelsea Hotel
Take This Longing
Field Commander Cohen
There Is a War
Is This What You Wanted
Why Don't You Try
I Tried to Leave You
Who by Fire?
A Singer Must Die
Memories
Paper-Thin Hotel
True Love Leaves No Traces
I Left a Woman Waiting
Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On
I Knelt Beside a Stream
The Cafe
Commentary - The Cafe
The Change
Commentary - The Change
Death to This Book
Commentary - Death to This Book
Another Room
Commentary - Another Room
Death of a Lady's Man
My Wife and I
Commentary - My Wife and I
The News You Really Hate
Commentary - The News You Really Hate
I Decided
The Beetle
Commentary - The Beetle
The Altar
Commentary - The Altar
This Marriage
Commentary - This Marriage
Commentary II - This Marriage
The Photograph
It's Probably Spring
Commentary - It's Probably Spring
Another Family
The Asthmatic
Commentary - The Asthmatic
A Woman's Decision
I Bury My Girlfriend
A Different Drum
A Working Man
Commentary - A Working Man
The Unclean Start
Angelica
The Next One
A Marvellous Woman
The Event
You Have No Form
The Dream
I Like the Way You Opposed Me
Beside My Son
Commentary - Beside My Son
She Has Given Me the Bullet
Commentary - She Has Given Me the Bullet
The Good Fight
The Dove
The Rose
Not Going Back
Montreal
French and English
O Wife Unmasked
The Window
Your Death
Petitions
The Rebellion
The Price of This Book
Roshi
This Wretch
Hurry to Your Dinner
Commentary - Hurry to Your Dinner
Slowly I Married Her
The Transmission
End of My Life in Art
Roshi Again
How to Speak Poetry
Commentary - How to Speak Poetry
The Politics of This Book
You're Not Supposed to Be Here
Final Examination
Commentary - Final Examination
Came So Far for Beauty
The Window
Our Lady of Solitude
The Gypsy Wife
The Traitor
The Guests
Ballad of the Absent Mare
I Stopped to Listen
When I Left the King
I Heard My Soul Singing
Sit Down, Master
In the Eyes of Men
Blessed Are You
You Have Sweetened Your Word
I Draw Aside the Curtain
Friend, When You Speak
My Teacher
Israel
You Who Pour Mercy into Hell
When I Have Not Rage
We Cry Out
You Who Question Souls
It Is All Around Me
It Is to You I Turn
Holy Is Your Name
Not Knowing Where to Go
All My Life
I Lost My Way
Dance Me to the End of Love
Coming Back to You
The Captain
If It Be Your Will
The Night Comes On
Hallelujah
First We Take Manhattan
Take This Waltz
Ain't No Cure for Love
I'm Your Man
I Can't Forget
Everybody Knows
The Tower of Song
Democracy
The Future
Anthem
Light as the Breeze
Closing Time
Waiting for the Miracle
To a Fellow Student
Fragment from a Journal
When Even The
Paris Models
On Seeing Kabir's Poems on Her Dressing Table
My Honour
Peace
The Embrace
A Deep Happiness
Every Pebble
Days of Kindness
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines