LEONARD COHEN's artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and ten previous books of poetry, including Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs and Book of Longing. During a recording career that spanned almost fifty years, he released fourteen studio albums, the last of which, You Want It Darker, was released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. He died on November 7, 2016.

"Stranger Music brings together, at last, the words of a Canadian artist who has been anything but a stranger to so many of us for so long. . . . Cohen has woven a chain of words that binds us together." --Calgary Herald

"Stranger Music is a massive record of the poet's imaginative journey through beauty, through horror, through the extremes of love and despair. . . . Cohen is always a poet of extremes: that's where he lives, at the edges of them." --Toronto Star

"Stranger Music is a record of Cohen's dispatches from the front, an invaluable record of a shining voice. It burns still." --Ottawa Citizen

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Pub date: 1994-08-13

Length: 432 pages