Stranger Music Selected Poems and Songs
, by COHEN, LEONARDNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679755418 | 0679755411
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1994
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 Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and eleven books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Book of Longing,and Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent 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 Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. Mr. Cohen died in 2016.
Poem | p. 3 |
Letter | p. 4 |
Lovers | p. 6 |
Prayer for Messiah | p. 7 |
When This American Woman | p. 8 |
These Heroics | p. 9 |
Warning | p. 10 |
The Fly | p. 11 |
As the Mist Leaves No Scar | p. 15 |
Beneath My Hands | p. 16 |
I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries | p. 18 |
I Long to Hold Some Lady | p. 19 |
Owning Everything | p. 20 |
Song | p. 21 |
For Anne | p. 22 |
You Have the Lovers | p. 23 |
Song for Abraham Klein | p. 25 |
Song to Make Me Still | p. 26 |
Summer Haiku | p. 27 |
My Lady Can Sleep | p. 28 |
Gift | p. 29 |
I Wonder How Many People in This City | p. 30 |
Travel | p. 31 |
I Have Two Bars of Soap | p. 32 |
The Cuckold's Song | p. 33 |
Morning Song | p. 35 |
The Flowers That I Left in the Ground | p. 36 |
A Kite Is a Victim | p. 38 |
There Are Some Men | p. 39 |
Isaiah | p. 40 |
What I'm Doing Here | p. 45 |
I Wanted to Be a Doctor | p. 46 |
The Drawer's Condition on November 28, 1961 | p. 47 |
The Invisible Trouble | p. 48 |
Opium and Hitler | p. 49 |
It Uses Us! | p. 51 |
Heirloom | p. 52 |
All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann | p. 53 |
Sky | p. 54 |
Hitler | p. 55 |
The Failure of a Secular Life | p. 56 |
Wheels, Fireclouds | p. 57 |
The Music Crept by Us | p. 58 |
Hydra 1960 | p. 59 |
Queen Victoria and Me | p. 60 |
I Had It for a Moment | p. 62 |
The Way Back | p. 64 |
On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken | p. 66 |
Style | p. 68 |
Disguises | p. 70 |
Cherry Orchards | p. 73 |
Streetcars | p. 74 |
Nothing I Can Lose | p. 75 |
Front Lawn | p. 76 |
The Big World | p. 77 |
The Lists | p. 78 |
Promise | p. 79 |
For E. J. P. | p. 80 |
One Night I Burned | p. 85 |
I See You on a Greek Mattress | p. 86 |
Snow Is Falling | p. 87 |
Fingerprints | p. 88 |
A Cross Didn't Fall on Me | p. 90 |
Suzanne | p. 95 |
Teachers | p. 97 |
Winter Lady | p. 99 |
So Long, Marianne | p. 100 |
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong | p. 102 |
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye | p. 104 |
Master Song | p. 106 |
Sisters of Mercy | p. 109 |
The Stranger Song | p. 111 |
A Person Who Eats Meat | p. 115 |
Marita | p. 116 |
This Is for You | p. 117 |
The Reason I Write | p. 119 |
You Do Not Have to Love Me | p. 120 |
You Live Like a God | p. 121 |
Be with Me | p. 125 |
What Is a Saint | p. 126 |
A Great Feast in Quebec | p. 127 |
Magic Is Alive | p. 129 |
All Right, Edith | p. 131 |
Believe Me, Edith | p. 135 |
Story of Isaac | p. 139 |
Lady Midnight | p. 141 |
You Know Who I Am | p. 142 |
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy | p. 143 |
Bird on the Wire | p. 144 |
Joan of Arc | p. 147 |
Avalanche | p. 149 |
Diamonds in the Mine | p. 151 |
Famous Blue Raincoat | p. 153 |
Welcome to These Lines | p. 157 |
The Only Poem | p. 158 |
Portrait of a Girl | p. 159 |
I Perceived the Outline of Your Breasts | p. 160 |
The Escape | p. 161 |
I Am Dying | p. 162 |
1967 | p. 163 |
Ugly in My Own Eyes | p. 164 |
There Are No Traitors | p. 165 |
I Left a Woman | p. 166 |
Invisible Tonight | p. 167 |
Love Is a Fire | p. 168 |
You Tore Your Shirt | p. 169 |
Threat | p. 170 |
Dark at Four O'Clock | p. 171 |
Far from the Soil | p. 172 |
My Room | p. 173 |
The Road to Larissa | p. 174 |
I Am Punished | p. 175 |
Aquarian Age | p. 175 |
The Killers | p. 176 |
Purest of Occasions | p. 177 |
You Went to Work | p. 178 |
Any System | p. 179 |
One of These Days | p. 180 |
I Try to Keep in Touch | p. 181 |
My Greed | p. 182 |
Your Eyes | p. 183 |
This Is War | p. 184 |
I'd Like to Read | p. 185 |
The Poems Don't Love Us Any More | p. 186 |
Stay | p. 187 |
Etiquette | p. 188 |
A Veil | p. 189 |
A Future Night | p. 190 |
Morocco | p. 191 |
Song for My Assassin | p. 192 |
The Wrong Man | p. 193 |
One | p. 193 |
This Is My Voice | p. 194 |
Chelsea Hotel | p. 197 |
Take This Longing | p. 199 |
Field Commander Cohen | p. 201 |
There Is a War | p. 202 |
Is This What You Wanted | p. 203 |
Why Don't You Try | p. 205 |
I Tried to Leave You | p. 206 |
Who by Fire? | p. 207 |
A Singer Must Die | p. 208 |
Memories | p. 213 |
Paper-Thin Hotel | p. 214 |
True Love Leaves No Traces | p. 216 |
I Left a Woman Waiting | p. 217 |
Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On | p. 218 |
I Knelt Beside a Stream | p. 221 |
The Cafe | p. 222 |
Commentary - The Cafe | p. 222 |
The Change | p. 223 |
Commentary - The Change | p. 223 |
Death to This Book | p. 224 |
Commentary - Death to This Book | p. 224 |
Another Room | p. 225 |
Commentary - Another Room | p. 226 |
Death of a Lady's Man | p. 227 |
My Wife and I | p. 230 |
Commentary - My Wife and I | p. 230 |
The News You Really Hate | p. 231 |
Commentary - The News You Really Hate | p. 231 |
I Decided | p. 232 |
The Beetle | p. 233 |
Commentary - The Beetle | p. 233 |
The Altar | p. 234 |
Commentary - The Altar | p. 234 |
This Marriage | p. 235 |
Commentary - This Marriage | p. 236 |
Commentary II - This Marriage | p. 236 |
The Photograph | p. 237 |
It's Probably Spring | p. 238 |
Commentary - It's Probably Spring | p. 239 |
Another Family | p. 240 |
The Asthmatic | p. 242 |
Commentary - The Asthmatic | p. 243 |
A Woman's Decision | p. 244 |
I Bury My Girlfriend | p. 245 |
A Different Drum | p. 246 |
A Working Man | p. 247 |
Commentary - A Working Man | p. 248 |
The Unclean Start | p. 249 |
Angelica | p. 251 |
The Next One | p. 252 |
A Marvellous Woman | p. 253 |
The Event | p. 254 |
You Have No Form | p. 255 |
The Dream | p. 256 |
I Like the Way You Opposed Me | p. 257 |
Beside My Son | p. 258 |
Commentary - Beside My Son | p. 258 |
She Has Given Me the Bullet | p. 259 |
Commentary - She Has Given Me the Bullet | p. 259 |
The Good Fight | p. 260 |
The Dove | p. 261 |
The Rose | p. 262 |
Not Going Back | p. 264 |
Montreal | p. 265 |
French and English | p. 266 |
O Wife Unmasked | p. 268 |
The Window | p. 269 |
Your Death | p. 270 |
Petitions | p. 272 |
The Rebellion | p. 273 |
The Price of This Book | p. 274 |
Roshi | p. 275 |
This Wretch | p. 277 |
Hurry to Your Dinner | p. 278 |
Commentary - Hurry to Your Dinner | p. 279 |
Slowly I Married Her | p. 280 |
The Transmission | p. 282 |
End of My Life in Art | p. 284 |
Roshi Again | p. 286 |
How to Speak Poetry | p. 287 |
Commentary - How to Speak Poetry | p. 290 |
The Politics of This Book | p. 291 |
You're Not Supposed to Be Here | p. 292 |
Final Examination | p. 294 |
Commentary - Final Examination | p. 294 |
Came So Far for Beauty | p. 297 |
The Window | p. 299 |
Our Lady of Solitude | p. 301 |
The Gypsy Wife | p. 302 |
The Traitor | p. 304 |
The Guests | p. 306 |
Ballad of the Absent Mare | p. 308 |
I Stopped to Listen | p. 313 |
When I Left the King | p. 314 |
I Heard My Soul Singing | p. 315 |
Sit Down, Master | p. 316 |
In the Eyes of Men | p. 317 |
Blessed Are You | p. 318 |
You Have Sweetened Your Word | p. 319 |
I Draw Aside the Curtain | p. 320 |
Friend, When You Speak | p. 321 |
My Teacher | p. 322 |
Israel | p. 323 |
You Who Pour Mercy into Hell | p. 325 |
When I Have Not Rage | p. 326 |
We Cry Out | p. 327 |
You Who Question Souls | p. 328 |
It Is All Around Me | p. 329 |
It Is to You I Turn | p. 330 |
Holy Is Your Name | p. 331 |
Not Knowing Where to Go | p. 332 |
All My Life | p. 333 |
I Lost My Way | p. 334 |
Dance Me to the End of Love | p. 337 |
Coming Back to You | p. 339 |
The Captain | p. 341 |
If It Be Your Will | p. 343 |
The Night Comes On | p. 345 |
Hallelujah | p. 347 |
First We Take Manhattan | p. 351 |
Take This Waltz | p. 353 |
Ain't No Cure for Love | p. 355 |
I'm Your Man | p. 357 |
I Can't Forget | p. 359 |
Everybody Knows | p. 361 |
The Tower of Song | p. 363 |
Democracy | p. 367 |
The Future | p. 370 |
Anthem | p. 373 |
Light as the Breeze | p. 375 |
Closing Time | p. 378 |
Waiting for the Miracle | p. 380 |
To a Fellow Student | p. 385 |
Fragment from a Journal | p. 386 |
When Even The | p. 388 |
Paris Models | p. 391 |
On Seeing Kabir's Poems on Her Dressing Table | p. 393 |
My Honour | p. 394 |
Peace | p. 395 |
The Embrace | p. 396 |
A Deep Happiness | p. 398 |
Every Pebble | p. 399 |
Days of Kindness | p. 401 |
Index of Titles | p. 402 |
Index of First Lines | p. 409 |
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