Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
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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.
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Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
