<p><b>Leonard Cohen's legacy is that of one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. <i>Stranger Music </i>presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work</b> - including the legendary songs 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel', and elections from such books as <i>Flowers for Hitler</i>, <i>Beautiful Losers</i>, and <i>Death of a Lady's Man</i>, and eleven previously unpublished poems.<br><br><i>Stranger Music</i> 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.<br><br><b>'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' <i>Toronto Star</i></b></p>