STRANGER MUSIC PB – LEONARD COHEN

Leonard Cohen s legacy is that of 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 , Joan of Arc and The Chelsea Hotel , and elections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady s Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems. Stranger Music brings together Cohen s song lyrics and a generous selection of his poetry and is a celebration of the legendary musician s extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion and timelessness. 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